Appleworks problems

[slandry@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu]

	May I borrow this newsgroup a while for the purpose for which it 
was intended? You can all go back to quarreling when I finish. Thanks so 
much.
	I am working with both Appleworks V and Appleworks GS. They are 
loaded on to separate subdirectories on the hard disk, and I shouldn't 
think they would interfere with each other, but I am getting some 
bizarre problems. Let me preface this by saying that we are working with 
two large Wordprocessing files (280, and 256 k respectively). The files 
will only erratically load into Appleworks 5. What usually happens, is 
that the file begins to load; the machine then beeps and code like this 
comes up on the screen:

 00/Cf8B:95   40   sta 40,x
 A=00FF  X=001B  Y=0000  S=01F1 D=0000  P=FS
 B=00  K=00  M=00  Q=9E  L=0  m=1  x=1  e=1

after which the machine locks up and must be rebooted. Does the length of 
the file affect this? It doesn't seem to happen with  short files.( I've 
got 6 megs of onboard RAM )  

	I've tried loading these same files into Appleworks GS. Here the 
little watch appears for a few seconds, to be replaced by the beach ball 
and this seems to be there permanently. I have let it run for an hour 
and twenty minutes with no final opening of the file.

	I took the files to my office and loaded them into Clarisworks 
and converted them to Text files and returned them to the GS. Still no 
luck. Once in a great while they will load; usually no.

	I did notice that even on the Power Mac these files took an 
almighty long time to load. If they took 10 minutes to load into a 60 
megahertz Mac, how long would they take on a 7 megahertz GS? Should I 
just  let the beach ball  roll all night long? 

	Any insights into these two problems will be greatly 
appreciated. My wife prefers to work with Appleworks 5, but the files must 
be  transfered to GSOS for printing on the laser printer. Right now we 
are stuck.