Pages (iWorks '09) version is hanging on opening files as well as saving files. On opening it eventually opens but on Saving it will never save.

All of a sudden today, Pages has developed a problem on opening and saving files on my Macbook Pro 13. I tried updating to the newest version of Pages weks ago but it really messed with the formatting of documents I had already been using so I am working from the iWorks 09 version of Pages. I can't use the newest version. To complete my background, I use Pages every day sometimes several times a day and that has been true all along up to yesterday.
When opening any saved Pages files, to include a blank pages document, the program hangs up for over a minute with the spinning wheel. I have no other programs running. Once the document opens, I can work as usual and nothing is slowed. Upon saving, the spinning wheel comes up and the program will not save. I have had it open for 10 minutes or more with the spinning wheel and Pages refuses to Save. I have to Force Quit Pages. Now when the spinning wheel comes up on Save, I can do anything else with my computer I want. The other programs on the laptop are not affected. Saving is not affected on other programs.
I read on another forum to try Keynote to see if there is a problem with all of iWorks 09. I did that and Keynote works perfectly with no problems opening and saving files like a champ. I have turned my laptop off and then on and the problem continues.
I also read to delete the plist files in Preferences and let Pages rebuild. I did that and the problem continues. I then read to use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. I did that and the problem continues.
I have not reloaded Pages from my purchase disk but I've also read that that doesn't necessarily eliminate problems that might be elsewhere. Thank you in advance for your help.

As the day progressed, all other files quit being able to save to the desktop. As I tried to diagnose the issue, I went through the Repair Disk in Disk Utilities and was told by that program to close and use the disk repair from Recovery HD (CMD + R upon reboot). I did that and was eventually told the HDD was too far gone to repair. I reformatted and restored from Time Machine following the instructions given. All is good now after 24 hours of work. I have no idea what happened but I'm not feeling real safe about my mac today. I have an SSD on order.

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