Workaround for lack of backward compatibility?

Is there any workaround for the new iOS7 Pages' lack of backward compatibility? I am still running Pages '09 on my MacBook Pro and won't upgrade to Mavericks until it's reached version 9.02 or so. The new Pages tells me that any doc I open will no longer be compatible with any version of Pages except the newest one. I also see in reviews of the new Mavericks Pages that some people are losing formatting etc of their old Pages docs in the new version because of this backward compatibility problem, and that makes me even less inclined to upgrade given how many Pages docs I have that May be unreadable in the new version.
Any suggestions accepted. Thanks.

I solved my own problem. I'm posting how in the hope it'll benefit others. This will only work after you have synced your iPad to iTunes on your computer.
First, I recovered the old version of Pages from my laptop's trash.
Second, I made a copy of the old version, went into user/music/iTunes/Mobile Applications and removed the new version of Pages and pasted in the copy of the old version.
Third, I opened iTunes and clicked on "Apps" in the "Library" section of the Sidebar. I then dragged and dropped the old verison of Pages onto the Apps screen in iTunes. iTunes asked me if I wanted to replace a newer version with an older one and I clicked on "yes."
Fourth, I deleted the new version of Pages from my iPad.
And fifth, I synced the iPad with iTunes, which copied the old verison of Pages onto the iPad.
I have a feeling that step 2 is redundant, but I've done that kind of thing before and it has seemed to work.

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[svn:cairngorm3:] 16245: Adding back the moduleRootContext public getter for backward compatibility

Revision: 16245
Revision: 16245
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-05-20 05:42:50 -0700 (Thu, 20 May 2010)
Log Message:
Adding back the moduleRootContext public getter for backward compatibility
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