Pages '08 document cannot be read properly in '09

Hey guys,
I'm currently working on my last major assignment for university, and I've written about 3 quarters of the assignment in Pages '08, however, when I open the document in Pages '09 - even though the settings and preferences are the same - the spacing is completely different throughout the entire document, and as I have lots of images in the document, it's really screwed up my assignment. I'm not happy!
Here's the settings for both Pages '08 & '09:
Character: 0%
Line: 15 pt (at least)
Before paragraph: 0 pt
After paragraph: 5 pt
Being that both Spacing settings are exactly the same, you'd expect the spacing to be the same... right?
That's what's so confusing...
How did Apple manage to screw up such a simple thing?
I wouldn't mind just using '08 for the rest of the assignment, and then switch over to '09 afterwards.. but the fullscreen feature would be massively helpful.
Any ideas/input would be much appreciated,
Thanks!
Andy

I've also noticed this. In '08 an "exact" line spacing of 14 pt would in fact not be exactly 14 pt when using e.g. Times New Roman. The actual line spacing would differ from font to font. In '09 "exactly 14 pt" means the same for all fonts, it seems.
Comparing '08 and '09 side by side I notice that 14 pt of "exact" line spacing looks the same in both versions when using Times, Palatino and most other fonts (indicating that in '08 most fonts behave well), but that the line spacing is larger in '08 when using Times New Roman, Minion Pro and Stone Serif (indicating that these fonts misbehave in '08).
Of course, I found out when I opened an '08 document in '09 and noticed that the line spacing had become substatially smaller, but only with these specific fonts.
It's a nuisance, of course, but it's better to fix this bug in '09 than to keep it there for compatibility with '08. Still, it means that for some of us it's a good idea to keep an installation of '08 even after installing '09. I have some huge manuscripts written in Pages '08, most of them with unproblematic fonts, but some of them will need manual adjustment when eventually converted to '09.

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