Why Does Spongebob Typing Work at Apple Store But Not at Home?

I had read reviews warning that The Learning Company/Broderbund/Encore SpongeBob Typing was incompatible with Leopard and/or Intel Macs. When I went to my Apple Store to get some typing software for my daughter, they recommended the app to me, and I auditioned it without issues on the store's (Intel, obviously) children's-area iMacs running 10.5.6.
I bought it, brought it home, and it won't run properly at all on either of our Intel MacBooks. It runs fine on the G5 my employer has loaned me, though that's not available for regular personal use. All of our machines run 10.5.6, so, er, huh? How come it works in the store on their Intel machine?
Today I visited a second Apple Store, also running SpongeBob on their kids iMacs, and noticed they're actually running a slightly-renamed "Spongebob Typing and Spelling," a version that's not exactly the one they sold me after all, and here's an even weirder thing: It doesn't seem to be available for sale anywhere. I see no sign it exists except on the Apple Store iMacs.
Can anyone shed some light on this?

It's almost the same. I have a slightly different box, and the Apple Store sticker refers to it as the "2008" version of the program. I read the earlier post with interest.
Am I absolutely sure that the Apple Store iMacs are Intel and running Leopard? No, but it's really hard to imagine they're not. They sure look like current iMacs, which means Intel, unless there are some secret PPC glass iMacs, which, seriously... And after posting my first email I'm thinking Leopard's not the issue since it runs on the 10.5.6 G5 (Hm, if Leopard's not the issue, where should I be posting this? Moderator, help?)
Also, as I say, the version they're running adds "and Spelling" to the title—it seems otherwise identical as far as I was able to tell—so I'm increasingly thinking the store's demoing one thing and selling another. Maybe the vendor has given Apple a pre-release of an upcoming, unannounced version it hasn't quite gotten around to releasing. Maybe (I'm hoping this) there's a patch available in some obscure place.

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