Tried
Create? I imagine it would be nice to have the option to draw up something and save out as a PDF, publish to web, print it outright, or drag from the Image Well directly into Word or PowerPoint.
Oh, I just read the rest of the thread. One thing to try, however very laborious, is to force TextEdit to open the ClarisWorks files. You might be able to extract text at least if that's relevant, though it doesn't sound like it.