Pages '09 won't open my AWK or DOC files

I've bought iWork '09 to future proof myself against the day I finally have to abandon a computer running Snow Leopard + Rosetta (I can still run AppleWorks and Word 2001 on my present machine but that won't always be the case).
However, now I'm beginning to regret it. Every document from AppleWorks 6 or Word 2001 (or Word 97 onwards ".doc" saved by TextEdit) will not open in Pages. I get a message, "The document __________ cannot be opened". I've tried both dragging the files onto the Pages icon in the dock, and by using Open in Pages.
Yet Pages will open a Simple Text document (albeit with a lot of "garbage" where the formatting was), and it opens TextEdit RTF documents, and I can grab and insert any jpeg into it.
But I bought the suite on the grounds that it will open AW6 and Word .doc files ... yet it won't! What has gone wrong?

Consider continuing to run Appleworks in Lion or Mt. Lion with Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) installed into Parallels:
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Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

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