ok so the answer that casek and mainter both gave me didnt help cuz i got that on my own too... and i was tryin to transfer apps from old wkstaions to new ones cuz i dont have the serial used to intall a legit copy of ms office on the old ones... and then i was adding new ones to the network...
i kinda solved the ms office problem, but w/e.... never figured out the transfer...
but what i did to slove the other thing was: instead of goin to ie and typing servernmame/connectcomputer i just right clicked my computer hit properties, went to the "computer name" tab, hit the to rename or add to a domain button, typed the domain and it worked fine....
i spent 2 hours trying to figure that shit out on sat and gave up... then i figured it out within the first five minutes of being here this morning... somtimes you just gotta walk away for a minute