AppleWorks, Tiger and OS 9-Classic

I have just had a system crash-long story - finally erased hard drive and started from scratch. I installed Tiger which apparently no longer includes Classic (OS 9). A good thing, I thought - didn't like having it take up space on the hd. At least I didn't think I did. However, AppleWorks 6 will not install - it keeps looking for Classic. Now what do I do? I still have a System 9 cd from when it was the newest system. Do I dare install it? Or is there a newer version of AppleWorks that doesn't need Classic?
G5 Power Mac   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Maybe when you quote a poster you should include the whole quote instead of truncating it.
I like iWork, it is a wonderful application, but did I every say it was better? I don't think so. What I said was, unless you need AppleWorks for the spreadsheet application then it is worth switching to iWork.
iWork has a much better word processor and presentation software. The graphics are immensely better and so are the templates. To reiterate what I said, unless you need the spreadsheet I'd go with iWork.
You've seem to taken your anger at Apple decision to start to move toward iWork and direct it toward me. Why, I do not know. It's Apple you're mad at, not me.
All I did was simply suggest an alternate software suite instead of AppleWorks that may better Jsorell.
Please don't take this as a personal insult, which you've obviously done. This post was discussed over two weeks ago and if all you wanted to do was help Jsorell you'd have realized the post had ended and there was not need to post.

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