Strange problem with Office 2004 for MAC. Dates incorrect... anyone seen t

Hi,
It seems that Dates are being changed to wrong dates on EXCEL files
Ex.
8/11/07 becomes 8/12/2011
Anyone sen this bug?

Best answered at the Excel forum: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

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Hello. I hope someone can help me. So here's the deal.
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Would anyone be willing to share their Product key with me, to install the software so I can get back to work?
Sorry, that would be illegal.
Here's a couple of alternatives though...
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http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
OpenOffice...
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Rosetta is installed. Here is the report:
Process:         LaunchCFMApp [686]
Path:            /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Microsoft Excel
Identifier:      com.microsoft.Excel
Version:         11.2.0 (11.2.0 (050714), © 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.)
Code Type:       PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [541]
Date/Time:       2014-03-05 21:02:20.493 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          45393 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           21
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   6
Anonymous UUID:                      4A99CD01-EF9E-4225-86AF-A6BFF1EF3817
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x80239236 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x80238ad7 pthread_kill + 95
2   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb80bfb30 0xb8000000 + 785200
3   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb80c0037 0xb8000000 + 786487
4   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb80dd8e8 0xb8000000 + 907496
5   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb8145397 spin_lock_wrapper + 1791
6   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb801ceb7 0xb8000000 + 118455
Thread 1:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x80142afa mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x80143267 mach_msg + 68
2   LaunchCFMApp                            0xb819440f CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 206231
3   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x80170259 _pthread_start + 345
4   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x801700de thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x802fc540 ecx: 0xb7fff9ac edx: 0x80239236
edi: 0xb8211640 esi: 0x00000005 ebp: 0xb7fff9d8 esp: 0xb7fff9ac
   ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x80239236   cs: 0x00000007
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x8023922c
Binary Images:
0x80000000 - 0x8005dff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit 2.0 (???) <3DABAB9C-4949-F441-B077-0498F8E47A35> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
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0x8036b000 - 0x804e6fe7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.6.5 (550.43) <10B8470A-88B7-FC74-1C2F-E5CBD966C051> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
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0x805f1000 - 0x805fdff7 libkxld.dylib ??? (???) <9A441C48-2D18-E716-5F38-CBEAE6A0BB3E> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x80601000 - 0x80647ff7 libauto.dylib ??? (???) <29422A70-87CF-10E2-CE59-FEE1234CFAAE> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x80654000 - 0x807d6fe7 libicucore.A.dylib 40.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <D5980817-6D19-9636-51C3-E82BAE26776B> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x80838000 - 0x808e5fe7 libobjc.A.dylib 227.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <9F8413A6-736D-37D9-8EB3-7986D4699957> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x808f9000 - 0x808fcfe7 libmathCommon.A.dylib 315.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <1622A54F-1A98-2CBE-B6A4-2122981A500E> /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4163b dyld 132.1 (???) <4CDE4F04-0DD6-224E-ACE5-3C06E169A801> /usr/lib/dyld
0xb8000000 - 0xb81defff LaunchCFMApp ??? (???) <F24FBFDD-E694-6F38-BFFB-293613CEF2DE> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1fff libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <2DCD13E3-1BD1-6F25-119A-3863A3848B90> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
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objc[686]: garbage collection is ON
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