Pages won't create docs on Xserve G5

I've downloaded and installed the demo of iWork '08 twice and have the same results. Pages will open but I cannot get the template chooser to come up, nor can I enter any text in a blank document. Additionally, the menus are either slow or incomplete (Insert -> Pages -> (nothing appears). Once I switch to another application sometimes I can't get Pages to get the focus again.
This is an Xserve G5 running 10.4.10 at 1280x1024 resolution with 1 GB RAM.
Thanks!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5676418?tstart=0
Peter

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