Appleworks crashes after security upgrade

Question

I successfully ran Appleworks 2 weeks ago. I did a "security upgrade" today which updated many files. Now I cannot open Appleworks for a new file, for my 2 week old file, or even on the templates. The starting window comes up and immediately crashes. I deleted the preferences file and the com.apple.appleworks plist. I checked that I have Bauhus 63?? or whatever font was suggested as a problem. What more can I do?

Answer 1

Welcome to Apple Discussions Margie
With thanks to Barry, 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).
To Repair permissions in 10.4.x, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
(Also explained in my user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly.)To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > 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.
The security update won't install Bauhaus 93, so if you have it, you probably had it before &, since AppleWorks was working correctly before, I would guess that you have the newer, not-corrupt, version from Word 2004.