Outside of, you know... Shelling out any money.

I just got my first reelful in 8 months, and I'm working on a new computer. Needed to re-download WMM, and now that I'm on Windows 7, I can only use the new Live Movie Maker (see also, the preschool version) or WMM2.6 which is just... A step backwards from what my old Vista machine ran. It doesn't load my clips properly in the que, and I can't change the colors or fonts on titles.

Anyone know of either a fix to run older versions of WMM on Windows 7 (I can't find one) or know of a good freeware/dirty dirty cheap program to use to poop out some new edits?