Pages won't launch on a separate drive

I have Pages installed on my internal MBP drive, but I'm booted on an external drive running 10.8.2. Pages won't launch from the internal drive and produces a message saying I have to update or reinstall the application. The application will not launch from the external drive either. Anyone know what might be causing this?
Thanks very much.

You should not be having this problem. I have a pre App Store version of iWork '09 and it is installed on my internal Snow Leopard system and on my external Mountain Lion system.
I have never had a problem running it anywhere, but obviously if it is only installed on the non-boot-up drive you are going to have problems because it relies on files installed in the current System folder. It also sounds like you may have dragged it over and it has reverted to a demo version because you never registered it for the working system.
Peter

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