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I think I figured the problem out.  I'm using Vista, and I manually installed Matlab R2007a in the folder c:\MATLAB74.  When I started Matlab, it would hang on "initializing..." and after I did a ctrl-c, it still wouldn't open files.

After reading "Release noted for R2007a" where it says

"In R2007a, MATLAB creates a folder named MATLAB in your My Documents folder (Documents folder on Vista systems) and uses this folder as the default startup folder. This change was made to complement the new Vista security policy, or User Account Control (UAC). Creating files in the C:\Program Files folder requires administrator privileges."

I got the idea to uninstall Matlab and then reinstalled it in the default directory.  So far, everything seems to work fine.