I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.8 yesterday. Documents created by Pages '09 (v 4.1) are reformatted / garbled / text lost, I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.8 yesterday. Documents created by Pages '09 (v 4.1) are reformatted / garbled / text lost

Fonts (Arial, Times New Roman) are s p r e a d, or sometimes crowded, and sometimes in the same word. Smartquotes are messed up; apostrophe-s and apostrophe-t are made into some unicode-like characters, as is italicized fl. And finally, text itself has been omitted. This is Pages from iWork '09.
Not all Pages documents have been disrupted in all these ways. But the Arial font, which I use in page headers, does seem to have been consistenly altered. Opening a Word document resulted in it opening in Pages; here, error messages noted that Ariel MS was substituted for the missing Ariel, and TimesNewRoman MS was subsituted for the missing TimesNewRoman.
Opening Word itself (Office for Mac, Word 10.1.4, created 2003) required re-loading Rosetta. Opening two documents, one substiuted 11-point TimesNewRoman (presumably MS) for 12 point; the other kept the 12-pt TimesNewRoman I always use. Again, the page hearers in Ariel looked altered.

After filling in problem detail, and filling out tags and categories (which I'd missed; this was my first entry to this forum) (and my title was doubled) this page apparently scanned my text and posted similar problems under "More Like This".
By following links I found "New Times Roman (only) font in Pages goes suddenly berserk" (NOTE: The font referred to is actually "Times New Roman"), posted by Magnificent7 in 2009.
After reading the discussion I opened Applications--> Font Book, and found that I had duplicate files for Ariel and Times New Roman, among others. I used commands in the program to discover and disable certain duplicate. On opening my Pages document(s) with problems, things looked ok, but there were still substitutions. Certain Word documents still exhibited a change in font or size.
I read that the location of path/directories for font was changed in 10.6.
Note these points about Font Book:
The Edit--> Select Duplicated Fonts command selected all duplications EXCEPT in Arial and Times New Roman.
The Edit--> Resolve Duplicates command executes, in effect, Disable commands. This didn't make things better for me, until I went back and re-Enabled the disabled fonts, and Disabled the others
The difference: Font Book disabled newer fonts (Preview--> Show Font Info), with copyrights of 2006 and "Kind" of "Open Type True Type". It selected for use, older-copyright fonts, of Kind "True Type".
The comments of "fruhulda" in the discussion mentioned above, suggested to choose "Open Type True Type". This is what worked for me.
In brief: use the Select Duplicates command IN ADDITION to fonts you know are messed up, and disable the older ones.
The File--> Validate Font command was also useful.
I also found info through Google, specifically about emptying the font cache, but I didn't do that.

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