Congrats on the Mini !
You might want to give Appleworks a try before opening up that office software you bought. Also, There is a free open source office application that is free. Very nice and fully loaded. Here’s the info.

http://www.neooffice.org/
NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms!