Pages and iwork not opening

Hi everyone
i am hoping that someone will be able to help me out, i have iwork 09 installed but it has stopped working, i have been through a lot of threads and done the following Maybe not in this exact order.
deleted iwork
installed the trial ( i have lost the disks at the moment)
deleted the iwork bits from the preferences
and it just will not open i dont get an error message or anything it just will not open, i have a dot under the icon in the doc but nothing happens, i have tried
double clicking icon
opening from within applications
dropping a file onto the icon
but nothing seems to work, i get the heading at the top saying pages command N and going to file new does not result in anything actually happening.
interestingly i have another mac and that one has also stopped working was working a couple of days ago and then i went and did the standard software update and it no longer works.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
Message was edited by: ed-l

peter thanks for the help - i was downloading the updater when you replied so will see what happens and let you know.
when i go to start pages basically nothing happens to explain a bit more
the icon in the doc has a dot under it the menu bar at the top says pages and they are the pages drop down menus but nothing is there i can not command N for a new template or open an old document. i can not drop a document onto the icon to open it either. so it is like the program is open but not showing up on my screen

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