How do I remove Microsoft Office 2008 from my machine running Mavericks?

I have both 2008 and 2011 on my machine, and I don't use 2008, so I want to remove it.  The Remove Office tool provided doesn't work, it gives me a nice big error report screen.  Any thoughts on how to get rid of this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500821

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