I'm looking at buycheapsoftware.com to see if I can snag an OEM version and looks as if I can. They have it for $129, which is more in line with what I expected to pay.

It won't give me Access, sadly, but I own a copy of Access 2000 and that's good enough for my current purposes. I really wanted to stop this pastiche of programs I have going but I don't see myself paying to keep Office 2007. Maybe I'll change my mind as I get used to it but the difficulty in saving files so that everyone else in the world can read them is quite annoying.