I/O Errors on AW files after clean Tiger Install on Pismo

I did everything right that I can think of...
I used target disk mode on the Pismo to back everything up to my G4.
Wiped the hard drive and did a fresh install of Tiger, iWork, Office, and AppleWorks.
Updated all the software.
Repaired permissions.
Copied all my wife's files from the desktop to a small, portable hard drive.
Copied the files from the hard drive to her Pismo.
Sent her to work with directions to write down anything she needed changed.
She called me later telling me she was having problems opening an AW file she needed. I tried replicating the problem on the G4 which had a fresh Tiger install the week before. The file wouldn't open. AW wouldn't open either.
Tried Peggy's suggestion about trashing AW preferences, which got AW to open. But the file still gives I/O errors when I try to open it. In fact every AW file I backed up from her Pismo gives I/O errors. Pages and Word files open fine. The only data that will not open from her backed up files are the AW files.
Any ideas?

I'll bet that/those files were created with ClarisWorks 4 or earlier. AppleWorks 6.2.9 gives an I/O error when trying to open about half of these files. Any other version of AppleWorks 6, including the Classic component of AppleWorks 6.2.8 can. You have several options, none ideal.
1. "Force" AppleWorks 6 to open in Classic. Make sure you quit AppleWorks in OS X first. They will both run, but I've had problems with odd errors if I do, so I don't.
2. Go back to AppleWorks 6.2.4, open the files, save them & then you can reopen them in AW 6.2.9.
3. Install AppleWorks 5 to run in Classic, open -> save & then the files will open in AW 6.2.9. This is my favorite solution because I can have AW 5 & AW 6.2.9 running at the same time.
4. Send a file to me, peggy_discussions(at)mac(dot)com. I'll open, save, open, save as in #3 & send it back to you. Give the e-mail a subject of AW 6 I/O error. However, I am currently in San Francisco & won't be able to do anything with files until late Thursday.
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