Pages document recovery

I've just spent the last 6 hours preparing a report in Pages 09 and when I went to save the document pages crashed! When I reopened the document in Pages it had reverted to an earlier saved version. How do I recover the lost work? I normally use Microsoft Word and this is the first time I've decided to use pages.

Well, I just lost a technical report I wrote in Pages '08. The computer ran out of battery overnight and when it tried to come out of hibernation there was a kernel panic. After restart, my document was reduced to a list of notes I had hours before I finished.
I understand that you are supposed to save your work. I can't imagine that I didn't slap cmd-s at some point during the work, but the evidence says otherwise. Really though - I haven't had this problem since I was 10 yrs old working with an Apple IIe and some random word processor whose name I don't even remember. A modern word processor should seriously auto-save. You don't even have to overwrite the main document or the manual backup version, just be able to recover if something screwy happens (like OSX crashing!? - since when does that happen?)
I'm starting to really get irritated with the quality control apple is showing. It used to be their strength. The OS is losing it's edge -bugs are creeping in all over- and their paid software is getting eclipsed by free offerings (I bet Google Docs has an auto-save).
Ok, I guess I should end the rant. Suffice it to say I was about to purchase the Mac Box Set to upgrade iLife, Iwork, and my OS. I think the money is going into a Microsoft Office license now. At least it has auto-save. Ugh.

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