Pages won't open if edited by iCloud

I have newest versions of Pages for both iPad and Mac. They open and sync fine through iCloud. The problem is when I use the iCloud beta to edit one of my documents. After that it will no longer open in either the iPad app or the desktop. It seems the web version corrupts it somehow and makes the other versions think it is in a newer format. The message I get is: You need a newer version of Pages to open this document.
This is not correct as I am running newest versions.
I don't older have older versions of Pages installed, just 5.01 for Mac and 2.01 for iPad

Hello verprop
Pages was updated to 5.1 around the same time as the other updates. Check the Mac App Store for updates.
OS X: Updating OS X and Mac App Store apps
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1338
Regards,
-Norm G.

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