Why does IWork '09 ask for a serial number?

I downloaded a trail version of Iwork '08. Then I bought "09. After some research I found that i had to delete the older version and reinstall. Yet after many attempts to do so, Iwork still asks for my '09 serial number. What do I do?

It sounds like there is a copy of the iWork '09 trial somewhere on your Mac. It used to be that to update the trial to the licensed version with the box, you just inserted the DVD & ran the installer to convert the trial to licensed. This changed with Snow Leopard. You now need to delete the trial & then reinstall from the boxed DVD or the Mac App Store. The files to delete are the iWork ’09 folder from the main HD > Applications; the iWork ’09 folder in HD > Library > Application Support & the individual iWork application plist files found in HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences for each user.
Yvan Koenig has written an AppleScript that removes the files. You can find it on his iDisk in For_iWork > iWork '09 > uninstall iWork '09.zip.

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C2ro as a member of the Creative Cloud Photography plan there is no need for a serial number. If you are being asked for a serial number then there is likely a connection error preventing the active membership from being authorized on the computer. Please see Sign in, activation, or connection errors | CC, CS6, CS5.5 - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html for information on how to resolve connection errors.
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Aperture must be running, and you will have to wait a few minutes to be seeing the file appearin the /tmp directory.
In this case you may want to repair the permissions on your system drive; you can do this using the "First Aid" tools in "Disk Utility" (located in Applications > Utilities)
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I have just bought Numbers and while initiating, a iWork 08 screen is appearing asking for a serial number. I did not get a serial number and I can't work on it... Somebody knows how to go ahead?

Are you planning to continue to use Pages and Keynote from iWork '08 trial ?
If you don't,
Go to my iDisk (address below)
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For_iWork:iWork '09:uninstall iWork '09.zip
Unpack it and run the script to uninstall completely iWork components (it don't delete the documents which you created).
It would also be a good idea to use a maintenance tool like the free Onyx to to clean the LaunchService databases.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 19 décembre 2011 16:42:12
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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