As for this comment (sorry, I hadn't seen it, before):
> Or you might simply say nothing and leave this sitting there generating
> sales for the nice folks at MathType :-)
as far as I know --and I can experience-- MathType isn't yet sup****ted by
Word 2008: my documents containing MathType 5 equations are all messed up
and there seems to be little hope to solve the problem, for now
(see <http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype_mac/office2008.htm)>