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For giggles I'd suggest setting the BIOS clock back to 2008 and see what happens, it could be there is a simple check that if the date is beyond 2020, 2015, whatever then to throw an error
If you end up needing a replacement, then I'd take a quick look at Bricsys (sp?) - their eval version is fully featured and works for 30 or 60 days IIRC. I liked 'em 'cause when it was released they were willing to give students home use licenses for free if the school bought licenses for the labs, and they offer Windows, Mac, and Linux versions.
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