My word documents no longer open

I had a 2004 version of Microsoft Office for Mac installed on my MacBook Pro.  I've upgraded to Lion, and now nothing in Microsoft Office will work.  I have all my documents, but they no longer open. 
So my questions are:
1. Is there a way to rescue them?
2. Is there some version of Office or Word that's on the Lion System?  If so, what is it?
3. Or, do I have to buy a new Word system all over again?
Thanks!

I'm having a similar problem, if you could help me out.
I just barely installed Office 2011 on my Mac (10.5.8) and now I can't access any of my old word documents.
When I try to open them, it says it is "blocked from opening in this version".
when I open it from word (file-open), it says that it's locked for editing by another user, and I can only open it read-only. When I click read only, it says
"word cannot open this document. the document might be in use, the document might not be a valid word document, or the file name might contain invalid characters."
just an hour ago, when i had the old version of word installed on my computer I could access all of these files, but now I can't open any of them. Any ideas?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you! Merry Christmas!

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