This was just an upgrade from Word 2002 to 2003, not from 2000. We have very
distinct style rules about managing the tables we do use, knowing that long
tables, embedded tables, and tables in general can be a "pain". The writers
in the group are using the same 2003 version of Word to create the
documents that contain the tables, and they are not having the issue with
corrupt tables. It is only after the file is sent to me and I work with it
in the editing process that the corrupt table occurs.