App Store indicates new iWork is installed, but it isn't

Hi all,
I had iWork '09 installed prior to updating to OS X Mavericks. After updating to OS X Mavericks, I went to the Mac App Store to update the iWork apps. The install seemed to go fine, but afterwords the iWork apps weren't in my Mac's apps folder but the Mac App Store did indicate that the new iWork apps were installed.
I did some research online and found potential solutions, but none of those worked: rebooting my Mac, uninstalling and reinstalling the iWork apps, creating a new admin account and trying to install the new iWork apps from that account, trying to install the new iWork apps from the Guest account, and using Cocktail to clear all my caches. The Mac App Store still indicates that the new iWork apps are installed, but none of them are in my apps folder.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next. If anyone has encountered a similar situation and resolved it successfully, I'd really appreciate it if you could post here what worked for you so I can try that.
Thanks,
Nikolaus

I found the reason I couldn't originally find the newly installed iWork apps was because they were installed on external drives which just happened to have folders named "Applications". Spotlight found them, I added them to my dock, right clicked on the iWork apps and chose the "Show in Finder" option. Two of the iWork apps were on one external drive and the other was on another external drive. I ended up just dragging them to my MacBook Pro's hard drive and deleting the ones on the external drives.

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