Numbers document opens empty or with partial tables

I received a couple a budgets from a friend which were made under excel. I've opened them with no problem on my first computer mac osx 10.5.8 using Numbers.
My second computer opens it too but it's all empty. Mac osx 10.6 snow leopard.
Anyone any clue? Are they some incompatibility with numbers?
Thanks.
Melanie

One more time something odd installed with Snow Leopard.
But the number of files which may be wrongly installed is so big that it's difficult to identify the wrongdoer.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 20 octobre 2009 21:15:54

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