Purchased Boxed iWorks but still acting as a trial

Hello All!
I'm still kind of new to the world of Macs. I used to own an iMac when I was in high school, but since then have only been using iPods and iPads. I recently purchased an iMac and I love it so far. However, I need to do some office work, so I decided to give iWork a try. After completing the 30 day trial I decided the program would work well for what I needed, so I proceeded to purchase a copy of the program.
When I went to Best Buy they no longer carried the program, so I went online and then discovered I could save money purchasing boxed version because of work. So, I went ahead and bought the boxed version. I got it in the mail today and found out that they no longer include the serial number and that the program has to be installed so that it will run the regular version.
I installed the program, it ran through everything and said that it installed properly. So, I continued to work on some spreadsheets. After a while, I went to save and it comes up saying that I need to activate the trial. I read through everything and it seems that I was doing everything as I was supposed to.
I made sure everything was up to date before and after the install and it was fine, so I didn't know what else to try. So, I finally decided to uninstall the trial version and then put the iWork DVD back in thinking it would just install it as if iWork had never been installed to begin with. After I did this I got an error saying that it could not run on the computer and to try all these different steps. All I had to do was run another software update and it opened just fine.
Unfortunately, when I went back in to save my file again, it comes up saying I need to activate the trial.
So, at this point I have no idea what to do and I'm turning to the experts to give me some advice on what I can and should do next.
Thanks for your time and I appreciate any help you have!

It could very well be that the preference file created by the original iWork trial install is still there - that would be the explanation for the problem.
You'll need to go to the now hidden Library folder:
Hold down Option key and go to Go menu; open Library folder.
Open Preferences folder and delete all of these:
Make sure any/all of iWork is uninstalled as well.
Restart.
Install iWork from the DVD again. Hopefully this will work.

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