Office Xp on XP Pro platform?

[mjoyner]

I have looked throughout the forums and cannot find any answer to this question. I had installed Office XP Home edition on my computer that had Windows XP Home Edition installed. Recently, I swapped out my motherboard and had to do a fresh install of my Operating system and chose to install Windows XP Pro this time. However, when I try to access any of my Office programs such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Publisher, etc, it gives me an error stating:

Microsoft office has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup again.

The only problem with this is that I am deployed to South Korea and my wife has my Office Disk back home. So, is there anything I can do to make this work, or do I really need to run install again?

Thanks for your help!!

[Ven]

you could download a copy of the CD from bittorent and get your wife to give you the CD-key over the phone.

But I am not sure if that is legal.