...anyways, back on topic, to answer Mac Hacker's question in a nutshell, no, there isn't any easy way to carbonize a program to run under OS X. Otherwise, we'd all be using PhotoShop 6 instead of paying for PhotoShop 7 and all the hooplah and bitching about Quark 6 wouldn't have happened.
You CAN carbonize a program yourself, as stated here, but you HAVE to have access to the source code of the program, which, for someone who hasn't programmed in their life, would be like trying to read some alien language. Plus there's 10s of thousands of lines of code just for one program.
Mac Hacker, I do suggest, though, if you are interested in programming and stuff like carbonizing programs and what-not that you take some college-level programming courses. I think you'll get a taste for what goes into making a program, and, for those here who insist on pirating programs because they cost too damn much, they'll see exactly what kind of effort, talent, skill and time go into making a program.
I'm a Computer Science major, learning Java and C++ programming, and it takes me weeks to write simple programs... I'm talking programs with no GUI... just simple data in, data out kind of programs. I wrote one that converts integer numbers into their English counterparts, such as 9,675 is "nine thousand six hundred seventy five" and that nearly drove me insane trying to write that program. Not to mention working out all the bugs once the program was pretty much finished.
I have a newfound respect for the programmers that spend their lives writing programs like PhotoShop... I also have a lot of respect for all the shareware/hobbyist programmers out there. This stuff takes time and a whole lot of know-how and intelligence. It's tough!