Pages Freezes when I try to edit a document

So.. I create a new document, populate it with text and photos, mask some images, etc.
I save it and email it as a PDF with no problems.
When I try to open it later in pages, it seems to open as it should, but when I try to go into it to edit text, paste new photos, etc., I get the spinning beach ball and "force quit" tells me that Pages is not responding. I'm using pages 3.0.1 and can't figure out what to do.
Please Help!

Hi Paul,
I've repaired permissions and reset PRAM. Occasionally, pages will open the document and operate correctly; but most of the time, not. I also removed an illustration from Illustrator CS3 which may be "unfriendly" to Pages.
Biggest change to G5 is the latest round of Apple software updates and the intel firmware update.
I'm still stumped.
John

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