Really ODD PowerPoint Issue!

OK, I have a really, really weird PowerPoint 97 issue.

When I cut/paste an image into a blank PowerPoint slide, and go to FILE -> SAVE AS, and try to save it as a GIF, it saves it just fine but then changes the name to fileJPG, with no extension. For example, if I tried to save the picture as a gif called picture, it would create a file called pictureJPG,. (Notice the "," (comma) after "JPG") Very, VERY odd. If I rename the file to picture.gif it works just fine.
Also, if when I'm in the SAVE AS dialog box I type the name of the file and select the GIF format, it changes the name to picture.jpg (of course, it still saves it as "pictureJPG,")


Has anyone ever seen this??

PowerPoint 97 SR2
Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 sp5

Help! :confused:

I have no solution for you, but just wanted to say that I have appearently been inundated with so many computer acronyms that for a moment I looked at the title and tried figure out what ODD stood for :sad: