Word 2010 won't open file created on a non-local template

My office, like many, uses Word templates saved on a central drive on the server that all computers in the office access (the H drive). I just got Word 2010 as part of Office Home and Student, and I'm at my home, trying to open some of these documents created at work. What happens? For anything created from one of these templates, my computer spends about 30-60 seconds trying to locate the original template (which obviously isn't reachable, as the file has been transferred to my home computer). This is VERY annoying. I should not have to wait 60-90 seconds to open a Word document.

I can fix this document-by-document by going file > options > Add-Ins > manage templates, and then deleting the address of the template.

What I CAN'T figure out how to do is to fix this so that it doesn't do this each time I try to open a file from the office. We have tens of thousands of files that were created on these centrally-stored templates, and it's never been a problem for me until now that I'm using Word 2010. Is there a way to disable this template-locator function in Word so that I can open my work files without having to wait 60-90 seconds per file?

 

Does the following change anything?

Source: Office very slow opening docs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) - MS Office Support

 

I'm running IE9, but the issue might be the same. Thanks, I'll try it this evening and see if it helps.