The document does not have a valid format.

I created a special format document when I had Pages '08. I needed the proportions of the document to match the special paper on which the document would be printed so I created a special size for my document rather than 8 1/2 x 11. If I remember right it was closer to 8 1/2 x 13 or so. Anyway, I have now upgraded to Pages '09 and can no longer open any of these special format documents. I have versions of a couple of the documents that were created in Pages '08 without the special proportional size page and they open without issue. However the special size documents all get "The document does not have a valid format" and will not open. I really NEED these documents. I have seen some posts about renaming to a .zip and then something about an index file but I don't understand where this index file might be and what good it will do to open it. Also I know the files exist because they are still showing their original file sizes (not 0 MB). Any assistance would be appreciated.

Don't continue to search fruhulda.
I never saw such files.
The only things which I may recognize are :
the strings :
mluc
(10) nbNO --> Norvegian
(16) svSE --> Sveridge
(4) fiFI --> Finnish
(1) daDK --> Danish
(17) zhCN --> Chineese(1)
(5) frFR --> French
(8) jaJP --> Japanese
(3) enUS --> English (US)
(12) ptBR --> Portuguese (Brasil)
(15) esES --> Spanish
(18) zhTW --> Chineese(2)
(14) ruRU --> Russian
(9) koKR --> Korean
(6) deDE --> Deutch (Germany)
(2) nlNL --> Dutch (Nederland)
(7) itIT --> Italian
They are the symbols used to identify the languages used for 16 versions
Two others are missing:
(11) Polish (Polska) missing
(13) Portuguese (Portugal) missing
I found also
iMac in plain ASCII and .i.M.A.C (dots are in fact NIL characters) which is the Utf 16 representation of iMac.
During a few seconds I thought that it was a piece of System Files but the page thumbnail must be available somewhere so that the Finder is able to display it.
I will send these genetically modified documents to Apple Bugs Hunters.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 31 janvier 2011 17:46:39
At the very end there is also the trailing string which fool the message parser:
the formula : *_Copyright Apple, Inc., 2010

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