IWork '08 applications won't start on my Mac Pro, 10.5.1

I installed iWork '08 (5-person family license); install seemed to go well. None of the three iWork '08 applications opens. I don't even get to the "please enter your license number" screen: a few bounces and then immediate premature termination. None of my other applications appears to be affected. I'm quite confident my disk drive directory is uncorrupted.
I tried all of the following without benefit:
1. Restarting computer
2. Restarting in Safe mode
3. Reinstalling iWork '08
4. Updating through Software Update
Curiously, I also have a demo copy of iWork '06. Keynote shows the same immediate termination behavior, but Pages opens normally and shows me the appropriate "do you want to use this in demo mode" startup screen.
I installed iWork '08 and ran it successfully on my wife's Power PC (dual 2 GHz) running 10.4.11, using the same source disk. It also works without a hitch on my 24" white Intel iMac running 10.5.1.
Here's a dump from system.log on the Mac Pro:
Dec 25 16:01:14 Macintosh Keynote754: * Assertion failure in -NSMenu itemAtIndex:, /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-949/Menus.subproj/NSMenu.m:819
Dec 25 16:01:14 Macintosh Keynote754: An uncaught exception was raised
Dec 25 16:01:15 Macintosh Keynote754: Exception caught by top level: NSInternalInconsistencyException : Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < (_itemArray ? CFArrayGetCount((CFArrayRef)_itemArray) : 0))
Dec 25 16:01:15 Macintosh Keynote754: * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < (_itemArray ? CFArrayGetCount((CFArrayRef)_itemArray) : 0))'
Dec 25 16:01:15 Macintosh Keynote754: Stack: (\n 2463965803,\n 2522640539,\n 2463965259,\n 2467922148,\n 2496296467,\n 2499741030,\n 2501968700,\n 16995,\n 2464025205,\n 2496161134,\n 2496120732,\n 2496119037,\n 2496118080,\n 2496117886,\n 15599,\n 15493,\n 315990,\n 315773\n)

Additional debugging information: creating a dummy new account on the Mac Pro allows me to use iWork. So there's something specific to my main user account -- that DOESN'T turn off in Safe mode -- that's interfering with starting iWork but doesn't mess up other programs. Man, I REALLY don't want to have to dump my main user Library and put it back piece by piece until I find the offending code. Any suggestions?

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