Missing System file?

I just tried installing the iWork 08 trial on my girlfriend's new Macbook. When we bought it, I erased the hard drive and reinstalled Leopard from the install disks, but I didn't install the included software except for iLife.
Now, it's a couple weeks later and I wanted to install the iWork trial. I tried installing from the install disks and I got an error when trying to start Pages. It went something like "Pages was unable to start because it could not find /System/something something having to do with the Media Browser."
I then tried downloading the trial from the Apple website, installed iWork and got the same error message.
Do I need to try reinstalling the entire OS again? Or is there a way I could try to install only the missing file in the /System folder? I have a Time Machine backup just in case, but I've never played around with Terminal before, and I don't want to break anything.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Here is the text of the error message that is in the report to send to Apple:
Process: Pages [4277]
Path: /Applications/iWork '08/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Identifier: com.apple.iWork.Pages
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Pages-5810000~14
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [168]
Date/Time: 2008-03-10 18:59:58.070 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphicsAppSupport.framework/Versions/A/Frame works/ImageKit.framework/Versions/A/ImageKit
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
Reason: image not found
Is this an iWork install problem or is it a Leopard install problem?

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