Cannot select cells in a table after pasting.

I agree. I think it's a "start from scratch" approach building the documents from scratch.

There are about 25 of them, about an hour's work each.

We found that no matter what we did with the original document the way it was created as one continuous table, we couldn't get the headers, footers and contents to position the way we wanted. When we tried to add blank lines to push one section to the next page the header would mess up. The images at the bottom of the second page would just decide to reposition themselves on the first page over the top of the content, regardless of what picture formatting we used (we typically use "tight").

UPDATE: Just reinstalled Office 2010. This problem does not exist in 2010.