Text invisible

Question

my machine was just rebuilt at a local store (new HD and OS X reload)
I've re-installed iWork and when I open or create documents the text is not visible (text is white on white background)

Answer 1

And this is a problem because...
1. you don't know how to change the text color back to something readable
OR
2. It keeps doing this every time you open a new document?
(I'm assuming that it isn't doing it when you open an existing document with say, black text...)
#1 is easy to solve - type something, then press the command + A keys to select all the text, and then select the text color in the little box that is right in the middle of the menu bar next to the font size box.
#2 is a little weirder - it means that somehow there is something persistent in the defaults. Try creating a document, changing the color of the text, saving it, closing it and quitting Pages and starting it up again. If it still happens, then you could try dragging the com.apple.iWork.pages.plist file to the desktop and restarting Pages. (it's in your user->Library folder).
I'm assuming you're using Pages 4.3 here, since you indicate that you're using 10.6.8, not Mavericks.