Microsoft Basic Office 2007 Activation Keys won't work after re-installing on my Laptop

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Published on 2011-01-10T17:59:01Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 18:55 UTC
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So, I've upgraded my hard-drive on my laptop, and proceeded to grab my trusty copper-faced Official MS Office disk to do an install. I have three licenses with the fancy green-blue paper that identifies the license keys.

Problem is, that for each of these license keys, when the Office 2007 software asks that I enter the "Product Key" it states:

The key is incorrect. Verify that you have the correct key, and then retype it

Why would Microsoft want to inhibit/prohibit re-installs on the same machine that the software was initially installed to?

Incidentally, the same goofy error happens with each of the three valid product key (activation keys) that I enter.

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