Word 2K holds printer settings

I am experiencing a problem with one of my Win 2K machines running Office 2k Pro. We have documents that run out of templates that change the settings for the networked printer for those documents. When finished with the document if you don't close word the printer settings don't change back causing anything else that prints to revert to the preferences for the previous documents (ie: envelopes want to print on letterhead) even though you have specified what tray/feeder/etc. you want the document to be printed from. If you CLOSE word and reopen it the printer preferences return to default and all is back to normal... Any ideas on fixing this problem would be appreciated.