Hi kinscore,
Although the installation directory works too, the recommended path for both .viemurc and .viemuwrc are the user folder (as you showed above). You can use the name with a dot or with an underscore (_viemurc/_viemuwrc), as that causes less trouble with the Windows shell.
The reason the rc files are separate is that, while ViEmu/VS and ViEmu/SQL are quite similar internally (thus both read .viemurc), ViEmu/Word&Outlook is quite different and expecting the same things could cause confusion.
I have just tried your mapping in Word 2003 and they work fine. I tried typing them by hand at the ex command line, and also writing them in C:\Documents and Settings\Jon\_viemuwrc. It works both ways. I'm using ViEmu/Word&Outlook 1.0.24.
Can you let me know more details about your installation? Word and OS version, keyboard layout and OS/Word language, specific local settings, any extra add-ins or extensions... any of those could cause some problem.
Does typing the commands at the command line work? This is in order to separate a problem with the rc file or with the mapping itself.
By the way, the 'noremap' version is the good one, as the raw 'map' will apply two mappings when processing ';'.
Regards,
Jon