Opening password protected Excel 2007 documents by double clicking from My documents does not work u

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When all of the following conditions are true, excel will open (most of the time) but will not open the document itself. No error is displayed.

This only occurs with Excel files, Word and powerpoint do open perfectly.

Conditions :

OS is "Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
office is "Office 2007 Ultimate".
excel file is in .xls (2003 format)
excel file is password protected
excel file is in "My Documents" (or a subfolder of it)
file is double-clicked from explorer under Windows 7.

Following options do open the excel file as it should :

right click and selecting the (bold) open action
single click the file and pressing enter
moving the file to the desktop and double-click it.
non password protected files do open from the same directory.

Actions taken not resolving the problem: - reboot - repair office installation - system restore does not work because of Antivirus application installed (message from system restore, using "Symantec Internet Security 2010")

Anyone any idea ?

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