Can someone help?  I am unable to open MS Word 2011 .docx files after installing LION OS.

I recently had a hard drive failure on my iMac.  A new 1TB hard drive was installed along with OS X 10.6.8.  Since restoring files from Time Machine, I am unable to open .docx files using MS Word 2011.  I receive a 'convert file' dialog box.  I can open .doc files that were restored from Time Machine and any new files in .docx format.  I cannot open any .docx files restored from Time Machine.   Has anyone else ran into this problem and do you have a workaround or solution?
thanks.

Might look into NeoOffice...
http://www.neooffice.org/
Or Open Office...
http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
There are older versions for 10.4.11 available...
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php#download
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

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