Microsoft office 2008 not working

Since I upgraded to mountain lion OS X 10.8.1 I can not get to open and use microsoft office 2008.
Any help?

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Let me run through the steps leading to this error. A couple of months ago I downloaded a trial of Microsoft Office 2008. It eventually expired and I left it on my computer. A few days ago I bought a license from Microsoft for Office 2008 in the attempt to get a free upgrade to Office 2011 before Nov. 30, 2010. After I bought the license, I was emailed a download link for 2008. I uninstalled the version I had already (Not knowing I could just enter the product key). I ran through the installation, though saw a weird "Product Key" window inside the installer before I finished installing. This product key wasn't even close to the one I got when I purchased my license. I finished the installment, and a update to Office 2008 12.2.7 appeared. I accepted and it downloaded. After that I opened Microsoft Word from my dock, and I was asked for my product key. I entered it and I everything seemed fine until Word officially opened. A window appeared telling me Microsoft Word wasn't installed correctly, and I could follow a link explaining on how to reinstall or uninstall office. I opened the link, and it told me about a known issue with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that didn't allow some xml to launch with all office applications. To note, this error happened with all Office applications except for messenger, project templates, and my day. Everything else showed the error message. Back to the xml issue page. I was told to download an update to 12.2.1. Which is very redundant, because I had updated to 12.2.7! I downloaded the update, opened it, it found the disk... an error appeared telling me it couldn't find the proper value or files. Basically it meant, 12.2.1 was pointless to install because I had updated to 12.2.7. I decided to uninstall this version and re-download. I did this many times after, and the same stuff happened. After the 3rd time I re-download Office 2008, I uninstalled and nothing seemed to be uninstalling. The uninstaller found no indication that Office 2008 was on the machine. I opened AppZapper and dealt with the installation that way. So, if anyone with the knowledge of fixing this, please comment and help me. New trimester in school next week, and need a Office badly.
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Process: Microsoft Excel [10053]
Path: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Excel
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Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [189]
Date/Time: 2013-06-19 15:51:53.541 -0400
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Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Excel
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