$79.00 to upgrade iLife is hardly "a ton of money", especially considering your version is 4 years old.
Bite the bullet.
obviously you did not read my entire problem If I upgrade I cannot use the programs because of my systems specs the only thing that i'm mad about is that I had no warning that once I paid $200 and upgraded my system that no matter what I did I would never be able to use these programs unless I get rid of what I spent 200 dollars on.