Leopard 10.5.4 and Appleworks Starting Points

I am a teacher and love using Appleworks 6.2.9 Starting Points Calendars but with my new Imac/Intel I can't seem to get it to work. I keep getting that file cannot be converted to an Appleworks document. Can anyone give me information as to how to get this to work?

"I open AW, then go to File and plug down to Show Starting Points, click on it. Briefly I see the Starting Points box show up on the screen, then the screen shows up saying that file cannot be opened and do I want to report the problem to Apple. AW always quits at that point.
This is a far different statement from your original "I can't seem to get it [AppleWorks 6.2.9 Starting Points Calendar] to work. I keep getting that file cannot be converted to an Appleworks document."
If AppleWorks quits with a File cannot be opened" message while trying to open the Starting Points windows, that would indicate a problem with one of the files or folders in Starting Points. see below for some trouble-shooting steps.
I have tried to start up Calendar Asst from the hard drive list and it bounces me out and says cannot open file, do I want to report the problem to Apple. The error message is the same whether opening it from AW or the hard drive. "
This is normal behaviour. As I said earlier, the Assistants cannot be opened from the Finder, only from within AppleWorks. Trying to open an Assistant from the finder will result in the "cannot be converted" message you mentioned earlier. In AW 6, that means only from within Starting Points. (In the previous version Assistants and Templates were a menu item in the File menu.)
Trouble-shooting steps:
Qujit AppleWorks before each of these steps. At the end of each step, launch AppleWorks. If AW launches successfully, it indicates the problem lies within one of the folders/files removed during the step just finished; Go to "Successful launch?" If AppleWorks Quits with the same error message as before, continue with the next numbered step.
1
I would start with a maintenance step: Trash the contents of AppleWorks's Recent Items folder(s).
Go to Mac HD > Users > yourname > Documents > AppleWorks User Data > Starting Points > Recent Items. Drag all or most of the items in this folder to the Trash. (The items are aliases to the named files. Deleting them has no effect on the files themselves.) Close the Recent Items folder.
Create a New Folder on the Desktop. Name it AWUD, and drag all of the folders in AppleWorks User Data into the new AWUD folder.
2.
Create a New Folder, SP, on the Desktop. Go to Applications > AppleWorks 6 > Starting Points
Drag the first two folders (Assistants and Backgrounds) into the new SD folder.
3.
Drag the next two folders from Starting Points into SP.
4.
Repeat step 3 until all Starting Points folders have been moved into SP.
Successful launch?
Quit AppleWorks. Return the folders you moved in PREVIOUS steps to their original folders. Leave the items you moved in the most recent step in the folder where you put them. Launch AppleWorks.
A successful launch confirms the problem lies in one of the folders you removed in the most recent step.
Quit AppleWorks. Return one of the folders to its original folder. Launch AppleWorks. Repeat with the remaining folder(s) until AppleWorks quits as before.
Once you have located the folder containing the problem file, do a similar search of the files in that folder. Open the folder, drag half of the files it contains into one of the (now empty) new folders you created, then re launch AppleWorks. Put half the removed files back and launch again. Repeat until you locate the single file causing trouble.
If it's one that you do not use, trash it. If you do want to continue using it, it will probably be necessary to re-install AppleWorks from your original disks.
Regards,
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