IE 8 Datasheet view problem in SharePoint 2007

On windows 7, with Internet Explorer 8 I was unable to switch the datasheet view in Sharepoint Lists.

When I tried to open the list in datasheet view IE8 crashes, closes the tab and reopens it by declaring "this tab has been recovered". however, it cannot open the url and says "We were unable to return you to the page you were viewing".

I tried several solutions offered on the net -  but they were proposed to different IE8/Sharepoint problems. 

It was obvious that this problem was related with Microsoft Office ...Finally, I tried running Office Diagnostics (which could be found under start menu> programs> microsoft office> tools) and it worked like a charm!  

I cant believe IE8 causing this many problems, if you try googling "ie8 sharepoint problems" you came across a huge pool of unsolved problems, maybe you should think twice upgrading to IE 8 when using SharePoint..

Forcing Internet Explorer Language Settings to a certain value

When working on multilingual platforms with browser-based applications, language settings are subject to change frequently..

So we had a problem about moss search and we had to set the language settings of our users to include both english & turkish (as seen in the screen below)

In our environment, the default value was only turkish

 it is very hard to apply this to all users; because there is NO policy setting for this configuration.

this is a nightmare, especially if you have >100 users

moreover, after you set the value the user can reset the IE settings 

so I explored a little bit and found out that this setting has a registry value.

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International"

create a file called langsetting.reg file containing this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International]

"AcceptLanguage"="en-US,tr-TR;q=0.5"

and put it in a bat file which will run during win logon by 

regedit/s  langsetting.reg

and you are done :)