Migrated to new lion iMac now excel won't save files?!

We got a new iMac with Lion installed. I used the migration tool to migrate everything from the older iMac, running Snow Leopard. Now when I work in Excel (2011) it will not let me save any files. I have checked permissions all over the place and there are no locks or passwords. I would toss the preferences file to start over, but for some reason I can't even see HD/user/preferences to go in and do that. InDesign CS5 just launches and quits, so I was going to trash the prefs for that since the other CS5 apps work, but again no folder to be found.
I have not been this frustrated with an Apple system upgrade, ever! I feel like I just bought a MS system. All of a sudden I see no system folder, no prefs folders, I am suddenly locked out of my own system and unable to take actions to fix things I have always been able to take. What gives? I need these things to work, and if I could go backwards to leopard I would but you can't.

Apple has been making their OS (and their pro apps) a lot like iMovie where they think you are a moron, and their system will never have problems so there is no need to go into the Library folder in your user folder, no need to have a Save/Revert (Final Cut Pro X eliminated this), etc.
To show your Library folder:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/
Did you update your apps? Make sure you have the latest updates, besides trashing the preferences.
BTW, I hate Safari 6, so if you have Safari 5, keep it. (They eliminated the Activity Monitor and made tabs go across the entire screen instead of being...tabs)
Apple makes their dough with iPhones and iPads, now, and they want the Mac experience to be as dumbed-down as those consumer devices. I think this is a mistake.

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"could not be imported because an unrecognizable type or file may not contain valid data."
That is the standard error you get when you try to import a photo that already resides inside the iPhoto Library folder. It prevents duplication in your library.
It sounds like you followed the correct procedure, but let's double-check. iPhoto can be run from a location other than the default. When you moved the library, did you copy the whole iPhoto Library folder as one intact unit? How did your dtr point iPhoto to the library? The correct way is to hold down Option while launching, select "Choose (or Find) Library" then navigate to the iPhoto Library folder and Open. Is this what you/she did? If so, perhaps try again?
As a second question, I have a G4 with a dual 1.8 processor, what version of iPhoto/iLife should I be looking to upgrade to?
I am very happy with iLife '06 on my 1.4 GHz G4 mini with 1 GB RAM. You could get iLife '08 for iPhoto 7, but be aware that iMovie 7 won't load on your machine because it requires a G5 or Intel machine. I made the decision not to upgrade because I'm happy with my current performance, and I think that the video-intensive and RAM-hog iPhoto 7 would bog down my mini. You can still buy iLife '06 from Amazon.com. See the system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/systemrequirements.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306336
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but wouldn't they migrate over with everything else?
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Lion upgrade questions and answers: Apple Support Communities
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clear to me if you had said Settings since I didn't see anything related to
prefs. On a PC, I know what you mean, On a MAC, wasn't sure.
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