Two questions:

I may have to get a new OS to use with Parallels; Can anyone tell me if word 2002 is compatible with windows 7 home premium (or any version of windows 7)?

IF not, can anyone tell me if it's possible to get just microsoft word (any version) separately and not as part of microsoft office?

I think that covers all of it. I upgraded to OS X Mavericks, which works fine, but can't start my parallels from the boot camp partition and I can't reinstall windows XP (tried it once, but got a message that I had exceeded the number of installations or something like that)