Appleworks won't launch anymore

Question

I click on the icon and it just bounces and then stops.
1) I emptied my recent items folder
2) dragged the applworks icon from the dock to the desktop and then reinstalled it from the finder/applications section onto the dock
To no avail and I can't figure out why it won't work now. My eMac is pretty full- is there a minimum amount of memory needed to run it? (663.5 MB available)

Answer 1

Try a couple of 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.
AppleWorks cannot handle Unicode, so you must not have an "extended" keyboard layout selected in System Preferences > International > Input Menu.