Missing from new mac mini

The hard drive on my old mac mini went out so I got a new one this week. I've noticed two things about my new one that concern me. I can't display the date in the menu bar. I can display the day and time but not the date. Also my new mac mini didn't come with any software to do word processing, spreadsheets, etc. I had a lot of old files using Appleworks 6 but it is not supported on Leopard. I was told by an Apple rep last night that you can't display the date anymore and that you have to buy new software to do word processing,etc. Is this correct?

The final version of Appleworks 6 does in fact work on the Intel Mini under Leopard -- but Apple doesn't support it, nor ship it with the new Minis.
A free office suite that is MS Office compatible is NeoOffice:
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/maindownload.php
a similar alternative is OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org/
There is no office suite that is directly compatible with Appleworks files, but if you install AppleWorks 6 on your Mini, you could export files in formats that other office programs can read.

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