Unable to open MOST Pages documents

Help!
I use Pages to create invoices; I went to create an invoice today and Pages just sits there, not responding. I've had to Force-quit everytime I try to open one of my previous invoice documents or almost any other document (please note-there is no problem starting a new document). I used the app just fine a few days ago. There are three documents that open no problem (2 created just a week ago, one created over 2 years ago); however, everything else I try just causes Pages to lock up. I trashed everything related to iWork '06 that I could find (including the Library files) and reinstalled iWork '06 from my DVD. No dice-same problem. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you in advance!

Help!
I use Pages to create invoices; I went to create an
invoice today and Pages just sits there, not
responding. I've had to Force-quit everytime I try
to open one of my previous invoice documents or
almost any other document (please note-there is no
problem starting a new document). I used the app
just fine a few days ago. There are three documents
that open no problem (2 created just a week ago, one
created over 2 years ago); however, everything else I
try just causes Pages to lock up. I trashed
everything related to iWork '06 that I could find
(including the Library files) and reinstalled iWork
'06 from my DVD. No dice-same problem. Does anyone
have any ideas?
Thank you in advance!
Do you have a backup of those files? Have you tried restoring from it? What about Fonts, have you checked your fonts with FontBook? Perhaps you used a Font in those docs that will not open that you did not use in the three that will. Have you deleted or disabled any fonts? If so, that might be a problem. Can you create a new invoice, save it, and then reopen it?

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