Vista - Trouble with WORKS

First of all..I hate works! I try to save documents in word 2007 or even word 2003 but the darn vista program saves it as a default into works!! This happens every time even though I click save as and scroll down to word 2007 in the pull downs. Works insists on putting in headers, footers, arbitrarily paginates documents. I'm thinking of scrapping my whole computer and going old school, installing XP and using word which always was fine....until works cane around! So much for progress!!

raffids,
See if either of these help.
To change default file save options in Office Word 2007:
Changing Microsoft Office Word 2007's Default Save Options | Dave 2.0

Or this might help.
To set Word 2007 as the default, open Word 2007. Click on Office button -> Word Options -> Resources -> Diagnose.
Let us know how you go.