Why is Mac Office:2004/2008 acting strange?

After I upgrade to Lion 10.7.3 over a month or so, I experience problems with some of my documents in Word or Excel.  The Excel opens to READ only and I am the only pperson that has the priviledge for it.  Also when I go to leave a cell, the curson locks on the cell and grabs everthing in the path I move my mouse.  I try to click it loose and nothing happens.  After a while I do get back control of the document, but again it begins to behave strangely.
In my Word documents, I would be typing and all of a sudden the curson is some other place on the page inserting my input in the wrong place.
I have spent hours on the phone with the tech support people with Microsoft and Apple, but no one seems to be able to have my errant software work properly. In my furstration I purchased the 2011 version of Mac Office.  I stll have the same problems after installing it. 
I just realized also that when I did an upgrade of the MS Mac Office:2004 to 2007, I continued to save my documents in the 2008 version, but selected the 2004 format to save them.  I understand that 2004 will not even open in the Lion OS X.  So I am beginning to think I may have created an anomoly by intergrating the two versions while in the Lion OS X version.  Does anyone have any nsight to this?
Also as part of my frustration with this software proble, I am not able to restart or shut down my Mac Mini from the drop down menu.  The wheel just spins and spins for minutes and minutes, so I finally do a power shut down.  The restart it by pressing the power button again to turn it on.  Any clue to fix this problem.
My Mac Mini is a 2009 vintage.  I am not an extremely knowledgable computer person.  I need help.  Thanks!

I have contacted them many many times.  For two days I waited on the phone for over 1 1/2 hours.  All total I have been on the phone with them over 6 hours and they are not able to find any problems with what I am experiencing.  Thus I fell there is something with the Lion OS X that is the main source of this glitch.  Thanks for your input.

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