How do I remove Pages 5 and leave Pages 4.3

I had been using Pages 4.3 very happily and had created some useful files which relied on internal bookmarks and external hyperlinks to the web.
I upgraded my OS to Mavericks (from OS10.7.3) and along the line upgraded to Pages 5. I was not aware that there would be no back-compatibility with bookmarks. Luckily Pages 4.3 is still in my applications folder in an iWork 09 subfolder. It is however not possible to set the default application as Pages 4.3 - for some reason that just doesn't work.
Is there a solutions to this, in other words to get Pages 4.3 to open the files by default?
Alternatively, what is the best way to remove Pages 5, leaving only Pages 4.3 on my system?
Thanks for any help.

Pages 4.3 will run just fine in Mavericks. You do need to make sure it is 4.3 & not an earlier version.
Using Get Info to change all documents to open with Pages 4.3 doesn't work. It will work on individual files, but that could be a lot of files to reset.
If you want to keep Pages 5 there are a couple of methods to make Pages 4.3 the default. If you don't want to keep Pages 5 you can delete it. Just make sure you've reverted or converted any files to iWork '09 format first.
Method 1:
This was first posted by another user in this forum. I can't remember who or when. It has been "fine-tuned" by Peter Breis & I added a note for what works for me.
1. Move any new iWork apps in another clearly labelled folder. I created a new folder in Applications & named it iWork 13.
2. Menu > Apple > System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy > drag the above folder into the list
3. Move the new iWork folder into the trash (temporarily)
4. Select any Pages file in Finder > Menu > Info (cmd+i) > Open with: > Pages '09 > Change all
5. Retrieve the new iWork folder from the trash (right-click > Put back)
Pages 5 should no longer appear as a default App, and you won't have to keep a copy in a separate drive or dmg.
Important: Make a note of where and how Pages was installed for the next App Store update and temporarily move it back there before putting it away again in the folder concealed from Spotlight.
Method 2:
This is the one I used based on several posts here shortly after Pages 5 was released. I now use method 1 because I find it easier to apply updates when Apple releases them.
1. After I installed the new iWork updates I created a folder on an external drive & named it "other applications."
2. I then moved the new iWork apps to this folder & renamed the applications Keynote 6, Pages 5 & Numbers 3.
I no longer have the new versions of the iWork apps installed on my main Mac. I'm not sure why, but the Mac App Store does not nag me to update.

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