Appleworks problem

Joined: Mar 2004
Location: UK


iMac OS X 10.3.2


I have Appleworks 6.2.4 as supplied with my iMac G4 last year. Although it operates in the Classic environment whilst I have OS 10.3.2 there have been no great problems until a few days ago (after I updated to Panther.)
Now, when I click the "close" button to close a file and the "save" button to save changes I find that next time I want to open the file I get a message reading "This document was not closed properly and some of your changes weren't saved. Do you want to recover these changes or discard them?" I can only avoid this by saving the document before attempting to close it.
There is also a noticeable delay with the coloured ball spinning before some actions can be completed like scrolling to the bottom of a document, selecting text, even adding new text.

I wanted to update to Appleworks 6.2.8 or 9 but once more I cannot proceed because I get a message saying the updater can't find a US version of Appleworks 6. I live in the UK but was not aware that my Appleworks was any different from any other.

Can anyone be so kind as to help with advice?

 

Thanks for your help. Now have Appleworks 6.2.9 OK.

 

Thanks a lot for your help.