IWork Files Greyed Out

Hi
I bought an iMac G5 second hand. It had old, licensed copies of iWork on it. I deleted them and installed my licensed copy of iWork. The Mac seems to have picked up the previous users license key but I am able to create and save documents in Keynote etc.
However, when I try and email using a webmail client, any iWork files are greyed out and not selectable. Other files created in, say, Text Edit are selectable as attachments.
I have trashed the plist file for Keynote but this does not help. Permissions for the file are read and write. I am signed in as an Administrator.
Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?
Thanks
David

Control-click a document, compress or archive it, and attach the zip file. iWork creates packages, which look like files but are actually folders, and these cannot be directly attached to an email.
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