Appleworks & Snow Leopard don't mix...

Question

The only reason I'm posting here is because after trying to post the question below on the Appleworks forum, I was told by an individual there, that my question would probably stand a better chance of being answered here:
Very recently, I had to do something with Appleworks and when I clicked on the app, it kept quitting. Up to this point it was working fine. I dumped the AW app in my and the folder in the applications folder. When I click the installer to install from the cd, the same message comes up.  When the image below comes up on my computer and I try to send a report, I can't because there is no send button anywhere.  I have pasted only some of what the message I get says, because it's too long to post the whole thing here.  Would someone here kindly let me know why the app is doing this?  Thank you in advance for any insight.  -K
Process:         LaunchCFMApp [293]
Path:            /Applications/AppleWorks 6/AppleWorks 6.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleWorks 6
Identifier:      com.apple.appleworks
Version:         Z-6.2.4 (Z-6.2.4, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1991-2002)
Build Info:      AppleWorks-1~0
Code Type:       PPC (Translated)
Parent Process:  launchd [113]
Date/Time:       2014-02-04 11:24:36.891 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6
Interval Since Last Report:          1211433 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           40
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:                      776E28A7-A4E6-4B52-9B39-2C20BDECA498
My operating system is 10.6.8/intel

Answer 1

The article was subtitled within the web page as being a macfixit item, in the cnet page where you'd gone to see the link to get that item. So I asked to confirm, while also I went into the article again to check the link, too. Some older articles have links that may be to third-party archives, or to older or perhaps defective material; so I double check and search out a trusted source or one with great references if third party.
Article name, reads: rosetta broken in os x 10.6.8 after security update | MacFixit - CNET reviews
In this story a second page link off-site seems to be broken, that had gone to a patch that purportedly fixed an issue the software update for Snow Leopard allegedly caused Rosetta users. So that part is gone now and unavailable for testing. The author of the main MFI CNet page is a contributor in ASC discussions.
The next set of possibilities would include the primary one: to make a complete backup to a capable externally enclosed hard disk drive, the kind with suitable housing that supports Mac OS X and system boot clones. And carbon copy cloner utility. And a mercury enclosure from OWC online.
Then you could do an erase and install of your computer's hard disk drive; perhaps while booted from the Installer DVD, the option in Disk Utility to 'secure erase' and have it over-write the drive with a single pass, would be OK. That would require the drive to be reformatted, however, prior to the new installation. Or just an 'archive and install' so you'd get a new system folder. But that can be too patchy to figure out what was missing to get done.
The secure erase - and - the erase and install are not both necessary, yet those of us who've had issues with older hard disk drives and possible sector errors or corruption, would overwrite the drive with zeros, then reformat, prior to an all-new installation from scratch. But have a bootable backup clone on an external drive that has been tested to work with the computer and OS X. This actually would be a preventative measure.
Getting the parts together ahead of trouble and setting out to do that, make a clone of a healthy OS X system that is installed and updated in the computer, is a task. The job includes knowing or learning how to do the clone, not stopping at first minor issue and thinking the process did not work, etc. And to get correct hardware that can work with a boot clone in OS X and also run on its own power supply are important details.
{You cannot drag an installer from a media DVD or CD into a system and have it do anything. The installer has to run and put the parts in the correct places. If you used Pacifist to extract the parts, they would be available on the desktop or in folders you could see, and then it could help install them from there. If the Mac OS can see the installer disc and files that exist in there, the Pacifist can find and take them apart, and install the part you need without having to run the DVD's installer.}
With a back up of the computer so your works are not lost, then a rebuild of a working operating system could begin. However there probably are items in there you installed that contributed to the issues you face, and if you knew what they were, it may help; with those that could be removed solving part of the problem. But what.
I suggest you re-organize the issues in this case and present them in a new topic thread, in hopes of additional input to resolve them; since a solve or partially solved topic gets few or no more helpful ideas.
As far as AppleWorks installer discs, you may need to try & find a nearly last version DVD, for use in Mac, that would have been available to early Intel-based Mac users, and that would've had 'universal' or dual installation for Intel-based Mac and powerPC based Mac.
I was able to extract Appleworks 6.2 from a set of cast-off eMac install-restore discs with Pacifist, and install the application in a G3 white iBook running Panther 10.3.9. Then found the step update to 6.2.9. Among other items, just to say I did it. And several items over the life of Tiger 10.4(.11) and a few in Leopard 10.5. But have not done alot with that utility lately. I still have and use AW 6.2.9.
Sorry to not be of much additional help, least not at a distance.
A new thread and topic is a better idea at this point.
Good luck & happy computing!
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