Word 2002 problem

I have had that problem a time or two with Word 2003. For some reason it boots it out of my spellchecker in Word. Usually reinstalling your spellchecker will resolve the problem. I have no idea what causes it. I have had to reinstall my Stedman's spellchecker twice now in the last 6 months. One time it happened right after an automated Windows update was downloaded into my computer. There is no way to stop all those automatic downloads either.