Cannot open Microsoft Documents or Powerpoint in Snow Leopard

I just installed Snow Leopard. I used to be able to open Microsoft Word Documents in Pages 08 and Powerpoints in Keynotes 08, but now I cannot. I don't know why and I need to fix this for my classes.
Can anyone help???
thanks.

The offending fonts are arial, Monotype Corsiva,Times New Roman. Those fonts do not cause a problem on my wife's or my laptop but we do not have 10.6 on the laptops (OS 10.5.8), the problem is with our home comp. with 10.6. I'm glad the the problem has been solved, my wife was ready to shoot me for upgrading. BTW there are also font issues with PowerPoint and Keynotes. I suspect that if I change fonts those problems will be resolved. I haven't had a chance to try it out though.

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Office Home Premium is a mere $10 a month, but a convenient annual subscription is only $100 a year. This is a substantial discount to Microsoft's Office 365 business products ($150 / employee / year).
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Thanks for quick Reply !!!
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