Pages crashing on keyboard shortcuts

I am trying to migrate from Word to Pages. After installing iWork 09 and creating new documents in Pages, the program crashes when I use keyboard shortcuts. for example, if I use command F to find text, typing the command twice crashes the program. same for other keyboard commands that I've tried. Not sure if other events will also precipitate crashes.
i have checked permissions, verified disk, checked viruses. running 10.6.8 on a macbook pro.
thanks

that did not help, unfortunately.
this is the first part of the crash log, in case that is readable.
Process:         Pages [213]
Path:            /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Identifier:      com.apple.iWork.Pages
Version:         4.0.5 (852)
Build Info:      Pages-8520000~2
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [146]
Date/Time:       2011-07-04 20:41:32.968 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          10636 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           4
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 5905 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      DB728EE5-3CAF-4D1F-B681-8387FF8FE177
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000000c
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.iWork.Pages             0x000c22bc __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> >::construct(std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)>*, std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> const&) + 744114
1   com.apple.AppKit                  0x956c2d7b -[NSWindow _changeKeyAndMainLimitedOK:] + 810
2   com.apple.AppKit                  0x956c2a38 -[NSWindow makeKeyWindow] + 72
3   com.apple.AppKit                  0x956c29a7 -[NSWindow _makeKeyRegardlessOfVisibility] + 128
4   com.apple.AppKit                  0x956c28ed -[NSWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:] + 39
5   com.apple.iWork.Pages             0x000c05e4 __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> >::construct(std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)>*, std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> const&) + 736730
6   com.apple.AppKit                  0x9570ca26 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 112
7   com.apple.sf.sfapplication        0x02ddbdde -[SFAppApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 608
8   com.apple.AppKit                  0x9570c8d9 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 435
9   com.apple.AppKit                  0x9570c5ca -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 174
10 com.apple.AppKit                  0x958081c7 -[NSMenu _performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 49
11 com.apple.AppKit                  0x95807973 -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] + 314
12 com.apple.AppKit                  0x95806117 -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] + 581
13 com.apple.AppKit                  0x956fbfe6 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 4858
14 com.apple.sf.sfapplication        0x02dd7123 -[SFAppApplication sendEvent:] + 789
15 com.apple.iWork.Pages             0x000783a4 __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> >::construct(std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)>*, std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> const&) + 441242
16 com.apple.AppKit                  0x95690253 -[NSApplication run] + 917
17 com.apple.AppKit                  0x95688289 NSApplicationMain + 574
18 com.apple.iWork.Pages             0x0000c929 __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> >::construct(std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)>*, std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> const&) + 287
19 com.apple.iWork.Pages             0x0007c412 __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> >::construct(std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)>*, std::pair<unsigned char const*, Status (*)(_xmlTextReader*, SFMDI*)> const&) + 457736
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a58382 kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a58a9c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
2   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a57f59 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163
3   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a57cfe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a57781 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a575c6 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2: com.apple.CFSocket.private
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a50ac6 select$DARWIN_EXTSN + 10
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation          0x96815c83 __CFSocketManager + 1091
2   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f259 _pthread_start + 345
3   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f0de thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5faa2 __semwait_signal + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f75e _pthread_cond_wait + 1191
2   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a613f8 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 73
3   com.apple.vImage                  0x937296ec vImageQueue_DequeueJob + 44
4   com.apple.vImage                  0x937297ec vImageWorkerThreadFunc + 124
5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f259 _pthread_start + 345
6   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f0de thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a31b42 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a37646 pthread_mutex_lock + 490
2   com.apple.Foundation              0x938d90bb -[NSLock lock] + 201
3   SFWordProcessing                  0x01ff7bdd -[SFWPSpellThread pRun:] + 289
4   com.apple.Foundation              0x938e3564 -[NSThread main] + 45
5   com.apple.Foundation              0x938e3514 __NSThread__main__ + 1499
6   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f259 _pthread_start + 345
7   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x96a5f0de thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x19854310 ecx: 0x00000001 edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x95e67a84 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbffff328 esp: 0xbffff300
   ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x000c22bc   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x0000000c

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