Pages )8, dot Mac and Windows XP

I've tried to store documents created in Pages '08/Leopard on my Dot Mac iDisk. If I open them in my MacBook, all is well. If I go to work, and access the docs on a WindowsXP PC, I get a Windows folder containing a zip file of an xml document, and some pdf thumbnails of lower quality versions of the document. What's happening here? My colleagues and I need to be able to edit the documents. So exporting to pdf, though desirable as it retains fonts/formatting etc more reliably than Word 2000 and 2003 which is used at work, is not really an option. Is there a way I can create a document in Pages '08, store it on my iDisk and retrieve an editable, correctly formatted version at work the next day?
I am a school teacher, so a lot of the documents I create have to be child friendly - this means that they should retain their layout, transparent objects, colour gradients, shadows etc as much as possible.
Whilst I am on the subject of Pages '08, is there a way to change the direction of text within a cell of a table, so that it reads "sideways"?

Hello
Every iWork component create documents whose structure is "package".
This is a special kind of folder containing several objects. One of them is Index.xml.gz which contains the description of the document.
As Windows is an old beast, it is unable to decipher this kind of document.
When You create a document with Pages for instance, save it as a Pages document then export it as a .doc file.
You will be able to send it in the other world.
I may be wrong but as far as I know, Pages is unable to "read sideways".
I was said that the best application doing that is Mellel
<http://www.redlers.com/>
but I never used it.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 31 mars 2008 21:33:42)

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