Spell checker alert

Whenever I open a document that I did not create with Pages, I get a recurring alert box saying that Pages "couldn't contact spell checker". If I dismiss the alert, it recurs after only 10-15 seconds. I have looked in vain at the Preferences trying to find out how to turn it off OR how to reconnect it with the spell checker. Can anyone help? It's driving me nuts!!
Mshen1
Intel duo mini running OSX 10.5.6 and iWork '08.

Finally squashed this issue - but it wasn't easy. I checked all the Library/Services directories and the only thing I had was TextExpander.service. Tried disabling that but no go. Then I realized that I had created a "Services-disabled" directory right next to my ~/Library.Services directory and over the years I had moved older service modules, modules I was testing and disabled, etc into that directory. I assumed if they weren't in the ~/Library/Services directory they wouldn't be recognized. WRONG!!! I just learned that apparently the system makes a system wide scan for service... we can see this because often services are embedded deep in the bowels of applications and they get picked up. Anyway - sure enough inside that Services-disabled directory was "Spell Catcher.services";. As soon as I deleted all the misc old services from ~/Library/Services-disabled... BOOM.. pages worked. Moral is - just because its not in services directory doesn't mean its disabled... I think... hahaha

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