Any time I select the "Animations" tab or click inside the animation pane, the whole program freezes and must be shut down (losing all unsaved progress, of course). Very rarely, I am able to change an animation setting or two before this happens, so I am basically creating my presentation one change at a time between crashes. I will set an animation, quickly save the file, then watch the program freeze within about five seconds. This only occurs when animation settings are being changed. I can work with my slides for hours without a problem, but as soon as I do something involving animations... bingo.
I can make this problem occur even with the default blank slide show (1 slide, no content). So it has nothing to do with any existing content in the slide show.
Some unsuccessful things I have tried, based on other people's suggestions:
--Repairing the Office installation
--Disabling all add-ins
--Disabling video hardware acceleration
--Disabling all macros
My system info:
ASUS Z8PE-D12X w/ dual Xeon E5520
20GB RDIMMs
Server 2008R2 64-bit
Office 2010 Professional 64-bit SP2 (ver. 14.0.7015.1000)
No printers installed (default printer is Adobe PDF)