Installed Lion and couldn't open any of my saved Appleworks Docs(.cwk)

I had just installed Lion and all of a sudden whenever I tried to open a document saved from Apple Works with the extention .cwk, I wouild get the message, "You can't open the application 6.app because Power PC application is no longer supported.
Just wanted to share what worked. I downloaded iWork Pages. In pages drop down I clicked "open". My documents files opened. Clicked on a file ending with .cwk. After it opened and was readable, I clicked "save" in Pages. It changed the extention to .pages and was saved in my documents.

Appleworks is a very old piece of software which will not run under Lion.
You seem to have come up with a good solution though

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