I updated to Lion os x and can't use microsoft office 2004 i can't o

I updated to Lion os x and now can not use Microsft Office 2004, I cant open it or uninstall it, it just says powerPC applications are no longer supported.
I have lost all emails on Entourage and can only retrieve emails via hostway that have been delivered today.
Trying to get help from Apple care is a nightmare as they need a serial number, which Lion being a digital download does not have one only web order number, which does not work when I put in serial box.
Can any one help me please, I am getting so frustrated

dual partition just means splitting the space on your hard drive into two, having Snow Leopard on one part and Lion on the other so you could use Office '04 on the SL side.  I am pretty sure installing '11 won't delete '04, but can't say with 100% certainty.  You can also check out free word processing programs such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

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