AppleWorks won't open after force quit

I recently had to force quit after my computer locked up during the optomizing phase of a software update. I just realized that AppleWorks 6 won't open. I've tried several of the suggestions found in this forum: restart, dump the preferences, run repair disk, and repair disk permissions. I've tried to reinstall from my original AppleWorks disk, but am not able to launch the install application on the disk. Any other suggestions?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)

How old is your AppleWorks install disk? On earlier versions the installer requires Mac OS 9.x.x to run (although it will install both Mac OS 9 and OS X versions of AppleWorks). Mac OS 9 is not supported on the intel based Macs.
Using that install disk, you should be able to install AppleWorks onto a machine that does support Mac OS 9 either directly or through the Classic environment.
Once it's installed, download and run the updater if the installed version is not either AW 6.2.4 or AW 6.2.9 (See note below). Then burn the whole AppleWorks 6 folder and its contents onto a CD, transfer the CD to your MacBook and copy the folder to the Applications folder on the MacBook. AppleWorks will create new preference files as it needs them.
To stay within the terms of the User agreement, you should delete the AppleWorks 6 folder from the Mac OS 9 machine used as an interim step in the process.
UNINSTALLATION
The basic uninstallation is pretty simple—drag the AppleWorks 6 folder from Applications to the Trash.
Because you also want to reinstall, you should also delete the preferences files described in Peggy's post.
If you were NOT reinstalling, you might also want to delete the AppleWorks User Data folder in your Documents folder.
Regards,
Barry
*AW 6.2.4 is the earliest version that is stable in OS X. It is also able to open some older AppleWorks and ClarisWorks files that cannot be opened using AW 6.2.9. AW 6.2.9 is the most recent, and apparently the last, version of AppleWorks for Macintosh. It contains a number of bug fixes, many of them removing bugs introduced in the 6.2.7 update, and adds support for scrollwheel mice. AW 6.2.7 is quite buggy and should be avoided. See also Peggy's first post in this thread.

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