AppleWorks 6.2.9 w/ OSX 10.5.4 saved doc Page Setup corrupted

Question

AppleWorks 6.2-6.2.9 has a Page Setup problem on OSX 10.5.4. Bought new MacBook for wife, transferred all files. When old Appleworks 6.2 .cwk WP files are opened the Page Setup is corrupt. Scale says 1,440%, doc prints as blank page. Can copy all, paste to new WP doc and works OK. Other apps so far print OK (FileMaker Adv 8.5, TextEdit, etc.)

Answer 1

The earliest stable version of AppleWorks in OS X is 6.2.4. The latest version is 6.2.9. Both work well in any version of OS X. Here is the page with the links I have for the 6.2.9 updater. The page has a link to the North American updater in the upper right (the blue 15.8 MB) & links to other languages further down. AppleWorks 6.2.9 for Mac.
If you have any ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files that have not been converted to at least AppleWorks 5, the best choice is AppleWorks 6.2.4. E-mail me if you need the 6.2.4 updater & I'll see if I can locate it. Click my name in blue next to this post. My public e-mail address is in the biography section. Just replace (AT) with @.
Whenever you do an update, it's a good idea to do two maintenance tasks, one for the system (Repair Permissions) and one for AppleWorks (delete preferences). (Thanks to Barry for this way to format this very common answer.)
To Repair permissions, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them. This step should also be done anytime AppleWorks has crashed.