Pages won't open anything

I am a new apple user. We have been used Pages successfully once but now suddenly it will not open anything - not a template, not a new document, not an existing document. The bar at the top opens when the pages icon is clicked but nothing else happens. The preferences menu says that the default is to show templates but it doesn't. I tried to open the one Pages document that we had already created and it will not open that.
I re-installed Work 08 and the problem did not resolve.

As your app works from an other account, the culprit is one file in your original user account.
As the account contain thousands of files it would be difficult to find the culprit.
In front of such a problem, I would try to run a maintenance program such as "Onyx" or its young brother "Maintenance"
Both are free.
If you never used such tool, Maintenance is the best choice because it do only a subset of Onyx features.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html
Run it to repair permissions and clean a lot of files prone to corruption.
Apply it then let us know if the problem is gone.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 7 mars 2009 19:35:42)

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