Pages Files opening in Word

Hi There,
I'm new to pages but so far I love it especially for designing things. But right now I'm having problems opening .pages files, I have Pages set as the default application to open .pages files. You'd think that with that setting my .pages files would open in Pages, but for some reason it always opens in Word. When this happens I get a bunch of error messages. The only way to avoid this is to right click > open with > Pages. Is there any way to fix this?

This is not unheard of & this confusion of OS X is often due to not using Disk Utility to repair permissions after a system update. So first, I suggest repairing permissions. You'll find Disk Utility in Applications > Utilities.
Then, highlight a known Pages document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You might check more than one document &, even, restart your Mac. Restarting can clear up a lot of little issues.

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    Trashing Pref files does nothing. Uninstalling and reinstalling the software does nothing. It simply is a bug in the system for some users.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11492514&#11492514

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