I myself have a fully legal copy of MS Office 2003 Professional, so Limewire/Bittorent wouldn't even be necessary magicfreak32. I've downloaded OpenOffice yesterday, it looks like it will work for their purposes. The only problem is there isn't a good Publisher alternative, does anyone know of a good Publisher replacement?
As for the Gimp, it's not so much that there's something wrong with it, I'm just wondering if someone knows if there is another program that compares with it. BTW, does anyone know how to do text formatting in The Gimp? It's probably just me, but I'm not even seeing a way to use a different font.