Okay, now I'm confused (but grateful) - I reinstalled Office 2008 from scratch, and now the Office Updater is offering to download an update direct to 12.2.5 (no need to install intermediate updates, apparently) and the file it's downloading is 200Mb, whereas the online 12.2.5 update was 330Mb big.
Hey, if it works...
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