Pages.zip won't open in pages 09

I have a Macbook thats running on Lion with pages 09, I also use pages on my ipad. When i save on my ipad then download it to my mac, it saves as pages.zip. I then try and open it up on my macbook but it says i need to update pages, when i try to update pages it says i eed to update to mavericks. When i tried to update to mavericks, it says that my mac is 1 year too old. I kow you can save from the ipad as a .doc and open it up on pages 09, but i have to write essays for college and when it converts from pages to doc then back to pages again, it screws up all my fonts and footnotes and i have to spend ages to sort it out again. Is there a pluggin or some thing that you can use on pages 09 to open up the ew format for pages? please it woul really help. what can i do with out exporting it to .doc?

One can sell to objections, but not to conditions that cannot be met. Peter is correct.
If you are writing essays for college, they should be in the expected native format of the Professor's application. If that is Office for Mac 2011 (Word), or MS Office 2010 Word on a PC, then you should originate your essay in that native format, with these tools, and without translation via export. It will save you a ton of grief over the IOS/OS X Pages experience.
If you cannot meet the schedule for essay delivery because you have resolutely chosen to use Pages, and risk document corruption or loss, the professor is unlikey to give you a perfect paper sympathy grade. Once you emerge from college and into what one hopes, professional employment, you will find that the ability to change your tools and thinking will become an on demand experience and requirement.

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Thanks Ricardo
I got the file. It is unopenable in Pages 5.1.
I opened the package and did a bit of research on the Net as to the problems/solutions (basically none) for the .iwa format.
I tried to disassemble and reassemble the package but it still wouldn't open.
1. I take it you are fine with the images which I had no trouble opening.
2. The preview file is just the cover as 3 sizes of .jpg
3. I was able to get into the Document.iwa file inside the Index.zip and recognised snippets of Spanish and numerical bits probably from your tables/charts. If you want to do the same, and might be able to recognise some of it, use TextWrangler or similar Texteditor.
I couldn't find much in the Tables .iwa files or other files.
You didn't by any chance password (encrypt) the document?
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Or contact AppleCare. They made this mess, let them fix it.

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