Unable to open or create/save documents in appleworks

Whenever I try to:
open an existing document or
create and save a new document
in appleworks, I get the message "The file is locked or already in use."
Help please! My system is effectively unusable.
I've been creating new documents by using mail to create a new message and saving as draft.
I suppose I could look at existing files using Terminal.
But the above are big workarounds.
What's happening?
I tried restarting the system, but that didn't help.

Well, technically AppleWorks is not supported by Apple using Leopard.
This thread says it can still work though and other users here have had limited success. There's usually something not working right.
Look thru these googled topics. You might find something you can use.
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