Missing word processor?

I have recently purchased a new mac mini with OS 10.6.4. to replace an older
mac mini unit. Since the old mini was G4/PPC, I used Target Disk Mode to
transfer itunes, and migration assistant for most other files. Everything
transferred perfectly, except my documents. My documents on the new unit
have symbols that look like they came from a Mummy's Tomb, with other
english words helter-skelter. . . in other words, my documents look nothing
like the originals. I've spent hours looking in the new mini for a word
processor, and the only thing I've found is "TextEdit", which is just crap.
I hope this isn't the de-facto word processor, as it's just about impossible
to use. It seems to me that my old mini had a word processor that was
similiar to MSWord, named Appleword, or Appleworks. I did a search on the new
unit's HD, and found nothing under Appleword, and only "Appleworks User Date"
for Appleworks, which took me nowhere.
Questions: Am I missing a word processor program in this new mini. Please
write yes, because I sure don't want this "TextEdit" garbage to
be my only choice. If I am missing the "other" word processor,
can you tell me how to find, or load it into the new unit?
Do you know why my documents transferred badly, and how to fix
that?
All help will be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
ed farmer
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Note that TextWrangler is not a word processor... it is a text editor. That may not sound like a significant difference, but a text editor like TextWrangler includes no functions for styling text (not even basic underline, italics and bold), no functions for laying out the page, no way to insert multimedia such as pictures, etc. Text editors serve a very different function - typically, editing code. And this also means that TextWrangler won't open your AppleWorks documents in the way you want... oh, it'll open them, but you probably aren't interested in seeing the raw contents of the file interpreted as plain text!
If paying for a word processor is what you're getting hung up on, try something like [NeoOffice|http://www.neooffice.org>. It's not as good as iWork, in my opinion, but it'll do the job.

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