How do I open Appleworks in Pages '06 (pages 2.02) ?

I have an older version of Pages, '06 Pages 2.0 I think, and I am unable to open previously created Appleworks documents. We are running OS 10.6 and 10.7 on different Macs.
Anybody got any ideas?

Pages will open AppleWorks text documents saved as v6 or later.
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