Pages 08 docs 'too old' to open in Pages 5.

It tells me to first save them in Pages 09 but I don't have it!
What's more, I can no longer get it because Pages 5 has replaced it in the App Store!
A bit confused. Any ideas? I'm willing to buy Pages 09, even though that's ridiculous, but how?

Same problem here. A temporary fix is to export Pages 08 documents as Word files, and then open the Word versions in Pages 5.
I saw an Apple genius about this problem  and she gave me Pages 09 at no charge, but also said there's no solution, presently, except to do as the warning message says - save them in 09 first and then reopen them into Pages 5. To my knowledge, there's no way to convert them en masse, so it has to be done individually.

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