Need assistance to operate Final Cut Express on Leopard

I am having trouble with Final Cut Express HD, the version that I have installed is 3.5.1. It is installed on Tiger and it works wonderfully. I have backed it up with SuperDuper as a bootable backup. However, after installing Leopard and starting the program I was requested to enter my name and serial number from packaging. I entered Final Cut Express HD upgrade version 3.5 serial number from the package. This is the last update I had bought. I then receive the following message: “you have entered and upgrade serial number. Please enter your original serial number”. I then entered the serial number for Final Cut Express HD upgrade version 3.0 from that package which I had bought. I then got an alert message “the serial number you entered is not valid”. I repeated entering the serial number for Final Cut Express 2 which I had bought as an upgrade and received previous message again.
To summarize, I have three boxes of Final Cut Express upgrades which I had bought, but I do not have the original I had bought years ago to start with and therefore can not get Leopard to run the program. I feel dumb for not keeping the original Purchase, but these boxes do add up. Can anyone tell me where to go on the apple site to get help? I posted my problem on the Final Cut Express feed back site but, received no answer.

I infer from your last post that having found the number all is now well.
To you and everyone else, I would like to stress how vitally important both your DVD and number is.
Lose either and you could have thrown away £200/$400.
I make copies of all my installation disks and actually write the numbers in felt pen on them.
I also put the numbers in various safe places including in the appropriate Tom Wolsky (and other authors') books !
Paranoid ....................?

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