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A list of known issues with Microsoft Office 2008
Authored by: rhowell on Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 9:21AM PST

Apparently Office 2008 also installs all files as being owned by UID 502, whether such a user exists or not on your system. If UID 502 does exist, and is not an admin, then they have privileges for all things Office-related.

More here:

http://brunerd.com/blog/2008/01/21/office-2008-502-and-you/