VB6 - Win2K Only, Word find/replace causes Run Time Error

[ElroyJetson]

Some existing programs that call MS Word and do some search/replace statements recently cause the program to crash now. Only in Window 2000, NT still works fine. I know that prior to July the executable versions of the VB code worked fine, but now they crash.

I thought it could be related to all of the windows updates lately.

I removed the find/replace statements, and now it runs, however it obviously does not do the find/replace.
(Office 2000, MS Word 9.0.3821 SR-1)

Any suggestions??