ColdFusion 8 & COM objects

Has anyone connect to a word document via COM with CF 8 yet?  If so, did you have any problems with it?  I am trying to connect and it WILL NOT work.  It is driving me nuts because I do not see any reason why it should not.  Just doing a simple connect/open file just hangs or I get an error message saying that the range method was not found.  I need to know if it is my installation or cf 8 or neither.  I am also using MS Office 2007.  If anyone has experience with this please let me know.   ---OR--- Can someone try and run this code on CF 8 Dev with MS Office 2007 and let me know if it works.  That is what I am using.  So, if someone else can get it to run fine then it may be my installation of CF or something.  Just trying to narrow down where the issue is because I know it is not with the code.  The file I am using is being saved as a 97-03 word doc. <cfscript>                   objWord=CreateObject("COM", "Word.Application");                     objDoc = objWord.Documents;                     wordDoc = objDoc.Open(ExpandPath( "new.doc" ));                   docRange = wordDoc.Range(0);                   docText = docRange.Text; </cfscript> <cfdump var="#wordDoc#"> <cfscript>                  wordDoc.Close();                  objWord.Quit(); </cfscript> Thanks! Lori