Microsoft Office 2004 Products don't function on Mac OSX Lion

I installed Lion on both my iMac and Mac Book Pro.  When I did the installs I didn't keep Snow Lepoard so I could boot either the old or new system.  After signing on to Lion I notice that all my Microsoft 2004 Office products no longer function.  I looked into the steps to re-install Snow Leporad but that doesn't look easy, its wasteful, and I might have to kep it around forever.  Since I have an extensive number of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access files does anyone know if the lastest version of Microsoft Office for Mac is support on Lion?  The only other solution I see is to move exything to cloud version of office

If you don't need Exchange you can get Office 2008 H&S very reasonably from Amazon with free shipping. $89.75
Office 2011 H&S does not contain Outlook. In addition, Office 2011 now has activation and number of installs are different than previous versions.
See this chart to know which version to purchase.
Lastly, Outlook for Mac 2011 is version 1 software. Do not expect Outlook for Mac to be anything close to Outlook for Windows. Just because it's not storing your messages in a database it still has lots of issues that damages or looses your data.

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