PSE8 in mac (10.5.8)

I am lost. None of what I read in the help PDF seems to relate to my PSE8. There's no little house button. There's no default welcome screen. There's no organizer workspace. All of the help and the videos show 4 boxes on the top right where I only have 3.
I'm assuming that all of the above is because I'm on mac and not windows. So, is there help for mac users???
My main concern is that I am trying to open photos in the editor but all it will do is open it in another window. It's fine but it's not the editor - no choice of full/quick/guided. The window lets me do some things but I've had those capacities in other, free, programs. It certainly doesn't let me use the kinds of tools that I bought PSE8 for.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Being a mac user I am easily frustrated (thus my screen name) with non-intuitive programs. I expected it to be a bit of a challenge but not the part about just getting the photo onto the screen! Yikes.

Thank you for the correct pdf link. That ought to help a lot.
Barbara:
How do you convert the file into something else in order to open it and then safe it. (I'm assuming that there is a stage between raw and tiff/jpeg... that will allow me to open it into PSE.)
"Raw files always open in the raw converter. A raw file is not an image file yet: it's three separate bunches of data, one for each color channel, and must be converted into something that you can recognize as a photo. You must use the Open button to open the converted file into the editor, then save it in the image format of your choice for use outside of PSE/bridge."
So appreciate the help! Whole new language!

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