New Mac Mini + Office 2004 Test Drive

Hi everyone. Not sure if this is the correct place to post this question, but I'll give it a shot...
I bought a new Mac Mini a few weeks ago. I just downloaded a Word document from my e-mail and it opened up Office 2004 Test Drive automatically... I agreed to the User Agreement, opened up my Word document, yada yada...
Now, however, it bugs me that this is trial software and I have 30 days to evaluate it. Thing is I actually own Office 2004 and just never got around to installing it on my Mac Mini yet...
So what is the proper way to install it? Do I need to remove Office Test Drive 2004 first, or do I just run the installer off the Office 2004 DVD? What are the proper steps I need to take?
Thank you,
Keith

Remove MS Office Test Drive
On your hard disk, open Microsoft Office 2004 folder that contains the Test Drive. Any documents you saved in the Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive should be moved somewhere in your documents folder.
In the Microsoft Office 2004 folder, double-click "Remove Office". In the Results window, choose Microsoft Office 2004 (including Test Drive) and then click "continue" and follow the prompts.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td
-mj
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Hello all,
Please forgive me if this is the wrong forum, but I'm looking for help here... or possibly somebody has a forum elsewhere where I might ask this question:
I have recently purchased a brand new Macbook Pro.
I installed Office 2004 (Student/Teacher Edition).
When I double-click on a document created by Word (from my PC that I transferred over), instead of my "real" Word 2004 opening the document... I get the Office 2004 Test Drive opening it...and a warning saying "I have 29 days remaining until it expires".
My question is: How can I either remove the Office 2004 Test Drive and/or get it so that my document is opened with the "real" Office, instead of the test drive?
As I said, I apologize if this is the wrong forum... but if you can please a) direct me to the correct forum or b) help me out with a link... I'd VERY much appreciate it.
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The Office Test Drive folder is on my computer.....however, I have never launched anything in it.
Per instructions, I did try to use the "Remove" program (inside the Test Drive folder).
All went well, except when "Remove" did its search, nothing showed up. Hence, when clicking "continue," I got a message that I had not removed anything.... new choices being "go back" or "quit."
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OFC2004TDFOLDERS: /Applications/Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
Unfortunatley, this information does not show up in the "Remove" program, so I cannot instruct "Remove" to remove it. (which seems a bit odd, I know, but there you have it.)
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Am I ignoring the obvious?
Since I have never launched anything in the "Office 2004 Test Drive" folder, might this mean that none of the apps are actually installed on this computer?
If so..... does this mean I can simply drag the entire "Test Drive" folder into the trash, empty trash, and all will be gone?
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It seems to me that when I did that I inserted the
new Office CD and using the uninstaller on the CD
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Do you think the 'uninstaller' is in that first "Setup Assistant" option?
And if so.....what concerns me is that if it doesn't work (i.e., behaves like the "Remove" I've already tried to use)....will I still have the option of quitting, and going back and just dragging that folder to trash before continuing in the Setup Assistant?
Logic tells me that you're right....that by never having launched anything, none of the components of Office Test Drive are actually installed....no users or preferences or anything created. So probably I can just drag that folder to the trash. Problem is, I have very little faith/confidence/ that MY logic is anywhere near the same "logic" of Microsoft.
(am quite sure I fit the Apple profile....cause I definitely "think different.")
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