Pages won't launch. Threw out all of my preferences. Self-inflicted wedgie.

I know I've done a bad thing. Throwing out all preferences is a recipe for success. Not that good at this computer stuff anymore.
Anyway, I don't have the original box, no serial number. God knows where it they are.
Running 10.6.8 (and I like it that way!)
Happy to buy a new serial number, if I could find one.
Naturally Numbers and Keynote are inoperative.
I downloaded a trial version... before summer... I seem to remember. So, I am out of options. Short of the needed preference files???
Or buying an old version. (with the nice "Save as" function)
Thanks for any help you may have,
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Thank you, this worked. The pages load now, but my new images wont load. When I try to "put" my gif files in this is the error I receive:
Started: 4/9/2012 2:41 PM
imageshomepage\Announce35.gif - error occurred - An FTP error occurred - cannot put Announce35.gif. Access denied. The file may not exist, or there could be a permission problem.
File activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not completed.
Files with errors: 1
imageshomepage\Announce35.gif
Finished: 4/9/2012 2:41 PM
I even tried to go to the side by side screen and highlighted the Announce35.gif that I just created and put on my master template and on the site side highlighted the images folder and I still get the error..Is this connected to my other problem listed above? The images folder is stored in the htdocs folder.
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