Files missing that Iwork needs to open

I cloned my old ibook to my new MacBook Pro laptop. Now Pages/Keynote won't work. It says files are missing. I no longer have the disk so I can't reinstall. Are there any other ways I can fix this?
Thanks!

The original is a DVD or a downloaded disk image.
You must use one of them to install.
If you own a DVD, you insert it in the DVD unit then double click on the Install iWork icon.
If you got an image disk, double ,click the xx.dmg file, open the white disk which will appear on you desktop and double click the Install iWork icon.
I don't know what was delivered with the pre-installed iWork.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 8 septembre 2009 23:00:30

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No doubt it would have been better had I reinstalled iWork from the CD rather than just drag all my applications from my external drive. But all other 74 primary apps (Office as 1 primary app) that I brought in by dragging work just fine. If iWork is going to be this touchy, then Apple should provide an "Uninstall" program as Windows has to do for this very reason -- you can't ever find all the little files that an application uses.
I did as you suggested: searched for iWork, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I am a university professor and some of these terms generate a lot of files.
For "pages" I got 20 folders, 2 images, 54 presentations, 2 music, 1 application (the one we want to find), 249 PDF documents, 793 HTML files, 994 documents, and 89 "other". Do I just dump the application, or are there "documents" or any other kind of file I need to dig through?
For "keynote" I got: 4 folders (all dealing with keynote speakers), 1 application (the one we want to find), 17 PDF documents, 8 HTML files, 33 documents, and 68 "other". Do I just dump the application, or are there "documents" or any other kind of file I need to dig through?
For "numbers" I got: 0 folders, 531 presentations, 4 application (1 of which is the 1 we want to find), 3 system preferences (none of which seems to be related to iWork), 544 PDF documents, 874 HTML files, 1915 documents, and 20 "other". Do I just dump the application, or are there "documents" or any other kind of file I need to dig through?
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Hi-
I had a crash of both my mac (it had to be replace) and the back up system. When I reinstalled iWorks, I still get the message "Files that iWorks needs are missing". When I proceed it launches the application, but when I tried to make some upgrade download, I got the message "The eligible Pages (Numbers, Keynote) application missing from the folder Applications" - it not the case - all three are there - any idea what may be going on there?

As far as I know, the described message is not issued by iWork 's installer but by updaters.
You must start with the iWork installer which will install Keynote v4.0, Numbers v1.0, Pages v3,0 in the folder "iWork '08' in the folder "Applications".
It's only after that that you will be able to apply the updaters (those delivered last week).
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