Pages 2 won't open Word files

I tried to open a Word file in Pages 2 and while Pages tried to open it it failed and crashed. Now Pages 2 will not open any Word file and constantly comes up with the error message 'Import error. An unknown error occurred.' Sometimes it crashes as well. The Word file will open fine in Word, Pages 1 and TextEdit. Pages 2 exports as Word but the files will not open in Pages 2. I've trashed preferences but to no avail.
Any ideas?
For what it's worth the upgrade to Pages 2 was not worthwhile for me as the features I really need are not there.

Some Word documents do crash Pages leading to a “this application quit unexpectedly” error message. This tends to be the case with longer documents (over 30 pages) with some formatting such as headings, TOCs and some simple graphics, especially if they are embedded in the header/footer. Stripping out the graphics sometimes helps, but the only sure-fire way to remedy the crashes is to open the document in Word, OpenOffice or such like and save it as an .rft. This is the only way I can get Pages 2 to play ball.
In my case this does not seem to have anything to do with the installation, as reinstalling does not change the programmes behaviour.
Cheers,
Reb

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