'Learn Spelling' function is broken

I’ve begun work on my final dissertation which involves a great deal of scientific and technical words not found in normal dictionaries. I need to ensure Pages learns them because they are repeated many times throughout my works and I can’t allow for any mistakes.
The problem being that Pages refuses to learn new spellings - i.e. the red dotted line remains under words which have been ‘supposedly’ been added to the dictionary following the ctrl+click 'Learn Spelling' function.
I’ve followed the instructions in this post...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1174764&#1174764
but without any further luck in correcting the problem. Further more to advice given in this post, I have reinstalled iWork (I’m using ‘05) and have performed a system wide permissions fix. But nothing seems to have fixed the problem.
I haven't done anything drastic to my Mac, apart from removing the languages I don't use to free up some hardrive space. But surly this would not have deleted personal dictionaries?!

Hello IanB, thanks for your response...
In my spelling folder I have three files:
1) en
2) en GB
3) en_GB
The ‘en GB’ one I created when I took the underslash our of the en_GB file. Since power-up, the system or Pages seems to have recreated the original en_GB one in the spelling folder hence I now have 3 files. Files ‘1’ and ‘2’ contain very old words I added to the dictionary (approx. 12 months ago).
But things seem to have got a little better. I have discovered that if I add a word through the main spell check window, the words are remembered without any difficulty including when a document is reopened. But the ‘Learn Spelling’ menu item on the ctrl + click menu for adding words to the dictionary is still out of order!
In terms of making sure that the same dictionary is being used for all of my document - yes, I think so. But under the main spell check window, I do not have any other dictionaries I can choose in the drop-down menu - I presume because I have removed all but GB English language from the HD.
So I think this leads me to believe that the problem is not related to corrupt files or faulty permissions, but perhaps a glitch in the application seeing one way works, but the other doesn’t?
Any further help would be appreciated.

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