Neither Pages NOR Preview will open

I recently upgraded to ML, but now both Pages and Preview will not open.  When I try to open a file, or open the actual application, they look like they're going to, but then they just bounce in the launch bar for ages and I get the nice little rainbow spinner.
Pages I don't think ever has worked since the upgrade, but Preview stopped right in the middle of using it one day and I had to force quit it.  I had one image open in it, and tried to create a new document from clipboard, which resulted in it hanging forever with the little spinning rainbow ball, and I had to force quit.  Since then it has never opened.  Like Pages, It bounces and bounces and never asks me to restore windows or anything.  Then it stops bouncing and the little indicator remains under the icon in the launch bar indicating it's open, but if I have tried to open an image, there are no windows for it open.  I have tried repairing permissions and restarting without success.

Ok, backtracking a little... because Preview is being stupid again.  :-)  It opens, but I get the same mess happening again every time I try to save an image.  Throwing out the plist file for preview makes it immediately able to open files again. All I have done is crop an image and try to save it or export it.  The export command does not even come up.  The menu highlights as if it is going to but no dialog ever comes up.   Preview at the same time becomes utterly unusuable.  I have to force quit it, throw out the plist, and start again.
OK I trashed the Iwork '09 folder in application support.  (I still had an Iwork '08 folder in there too and I trashed that.)  Starting from scratch, reinstalling, then updating.  If this doesn't work, then my husband is thinking, since Preview (something awfully integral to the OS) is so messed up that the next step will be backing up everything, wiping the drive and starting the entire OS from scratch.  Sigh.

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