Word won't open on my mac

I have an imac, OS X, version 10.6.8 and microsoft office 2004. Word opened only a few days ago ; now I get the message that it can't be opened ...1712. Here is a copy of what's on the console:

6/7/13 8:39:18 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SystemStarter) Failed to count the number of files in "/System/Library/StartupItems": No such file or directory