Pages creates all these folders on network shared drives

Our office has a ton of Macs all hardwired into gigabit ethernet. For years we've used worked with Pages, Numbers and Keynote files directly off a central server and it's always done a great job. Since upgrading to Pages 5.x every single time we open any Pages file it creates a folder with an idential name plus ".pages" next to each file. This folder seems to contain usless data that neither Pages 5 nor Pages 4 recognizes, and deleting the folders doesn't affect the original file at all they still open fine. This is really SUPER annoying and is flooding our servers with all kinds of usless data.
What is going on here and how can this be fixed? Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks in advance...

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Your Mac server is likely running an older version of OS X than Maverick, and does not understand the exclusive new Pages v5 document format, or its proper presentation to end users, as would Mavericks.
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Export all Pages v5 documents to Pages ’09 v4.3 document format.Resume use /Applications/iWork ’09/Pages
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Right-click on the .pages document on your machine, then select Compress menu item.
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Upgrade OS X Server to Mavericks Server
Despite its progressive version number, Pages v5+ lacks substantial functionality from its Pages ’09 v4.3 antecedent, including an entire incompatible document format with other versions of Pages. You should consider it early beta software, and not a viable production release (as Apple marketing would have you believe).

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