BSODs appears to be solved.
Office 2003 SP3 cannot be "backed out". Office needed to be completely removed and re-installed. But only to the point prior to the auto update. I have (duh!!!) decided to no longer do auto updates on this machine and then stick to a rigorous routine of:
a. set a restore point
b. take an image
c. install updates manually
You know, like it should be done. As well, do an image on the 1st of every month.
Now I need to call ADK about the inability to do a chkdsk (which may be related to that 32GB un-named/non-assigned drive letter partition on the boot drive).