Appleworks won't open at all

Neither an existing document, nor the application will open. I can't even see what version is it but it is the appleworks that came with my Powerbook G4 I bought about 3 years ago when the system was 10.3.1.
When I click on a document, the icon in the dock bounces once, and that's it.
I have tried shutting down the computer for a while, ran janitor. Still nothing.
thanks
Mimi

Hi Mimi,
One more maintenance task before reinstalling—try repairing permissions.
With Panthe, you'll have to restart the computer from the disk 1 of the original install set. Put the disk in, go  > Restart, then hold down the C key until you see the OS X startup screen.
Then DO NOT proceed with the system install. Check the menus for Disk Utility. Choose Disk Utility, and when it launches, select your startup drive and select Repair Permissions.
With that task finished, restart the computer again, this time from the default startup disk (your hard drive), then try launching AppleWorks.
If that again fails, then it's time to reinstall AW, using the original disk.
This will open the Classic environment as the installer on your disk is a Mac OS 9 application. The installer will install a package containing both an OS X version and a Mac OS 9 version of AppleWorks,
After the installation, open the AppleWorks 6 folder, click once on the AppleWorks 6 package and press command-I to Get Info. In the Get Info window, check the Version number of AppleWorks. If it is anything other than 6.2.4 or 6.2.9, download and install the updater available from Apple's website. 6.2.4 is the earliest version stable under oS X, and more reliable at opening files prior to ClarisWorks 5.0, while 6.2.9 includes scroll wheel (and two finger scrolling) support. 6.2.7, the version between, is quite buggy, and to be avoided.
Regards,
Barry

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