Installing iWork 08 on new iMac - white on white

Hi,
yesterday my new iMac arrived and I spend till now to install all the programs. All works fine, VMWare Fusion, Master Collection, Microsoft Office. I installed the iWork08 I used on the "old" iMac. With success. But when I open numbers or pages, I get a white paper with invisible characters. If I change to a very light blue I can read what I wrote. When I mark the text I can read it too. In numbers there are no borders etc. visible. Where is the problem??
Thanls for any help.
Christian

Given the difference of price, is it surprising that iWork doesn't embed a sophisticated code to check updates.
I'm not remembering the exact behavior of iWork '08 (there is no iWorks product) but I know that you are installing a product which is dead since january 2009. Don't be surprised that it doesn't adjust automatically to an operating system which wasn't available when it was designed.
iWork '09 contains a piece of code dedicated to update search but it doesn't apply in the first seconds after installation. And for sure, it's unaware of 10.6.8 or 10.7 which didn't existed when it was designed so it will not behave correctly.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 15 janvier 2011 16:49:12
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
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