Pages '09 refuses to create/open existing doc after Lion upgrade

Ok, I just upgraded to Mac OS X Lion (10.7), now when I lauch Pages (version 4.1 build 923), it hangs at the template chooser and never returns. If I disable the template chooser at startup and attempt to open a document created previously, I am presented with an error dialog that says "The document <document name> could not be opened".
I've tried deleting the pages preference files from ~/Librrary/Preferences but no success resolving the problem. Since I didn't purchase Pages from the App stored but instead from the Apple Store, I don't have the option of deleting the application and reinstalling it and since I'm out of town and have no media with me, It appears my options for resolving this issue are nil.
Any suggestions on how I can repair my installation short of a full reinstall? BTW, I've also run disk utility both in recovery mode and while logged in to repair any damaged perms.
Thanks,
Scott

In this case, it may be a good idea to download the free Onyx (dedicated to Lion) and use it to repair permissions and make a serious cleaning in caches files.
Caches from an old system may behave wrongly with a new one.
Now for me it's time to switch off.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 23 juillet 2011 23:53:17
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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