After HUGE document, Pages will not launch

I've been helping someone build up a big "photo-book" in Pages. We've scanned 700+ hi-resolution (300 dpi) images and filled a Pages document to the tune of 106 pages. The document itself is now 3.17 GB. Ouch! (This is all happening on an iMac with 4GB of RAM, running Mountain Lion, 10.8.2 or .3? and Pages 4.3.)
Pages won't launch now. Beachballs = Unexpected Quit.
I could tell that Pages was trying to auto-open the Photo Book document upon launch. So I went to the 'General' area of the System Preferences and checked the box, 'Close Windows when quitting an application'. The I did a restart and here I un-checked the "Reopen windows when logging back in” option. Then I restarted.
Pages will still not launch. Beachballs for a few minutes, then Unexpectedly Quits. Can't break this cycle.
Any ideas how I can get Pages to run again?? Photo Book document, or not?
PS: I realize this 3+ GB Pages document is enormous, especially w/4gb RAM (only). I tried to use the "Reduce File Size" option, but that was a separate fiasco. But, outside of the Photo Book, I simply have other Pages work that I need to do on this machine. Any suggestions are appreciated!!
~Kevin

Thanks for the suggestions. This job has been on the back burner for a while. My "colleague" and I are both freelancers and have buried with our own, separate projects as of late.
I'm hoping to try some of these fixes soon and will report back when I know more. I don't like to simply let these posts dangle off into nothingness...

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