for anyone who has used pages 2 has it over come the following issues?

Microsoft Word

Export to Word almost works, but almost isn’t good enough. Opening up one of the more complex templates, I changed nothing and exported it in Microsoft Word format. Opening it in Word on both Windows and the Mac was a disappointment. The content is all there, but the layout that looks so nice in Pages falls apart in Word. It’s pretty depressing since this will be a deal breaker for many many people.

HTML

Export to HTML does not work as advertised to say the least. The resulting files, an html file and a folder of supporting image and css files, does not even render correctly in Safari. If you’re looking for a program to output HTML, this isn’t it. If you were hoping that Export to HTML would output nice standards-based XHTML and CSS with CSS-driven layouts, well, consider yourself disappointed. The output is table-heavy and does not separate content from display very well at all. Export to HTML simply shouldn’t be used.

I've found apple works lacking to a degree when workinng on group projects that need to be exported to word. Damned word.

Pages 2 export to MS Word works very well for me -- keeps good fidelity, and I've managed to do some collaboration with a group this way. Unfortunately, I find that import doesn't work very well, so I can't do round-tripping. So basically, if you want to start off the document in pages, or if you're the "master editor", you can keep all your edits in Pages2 and export as Word for others to read & suggest comments/changes.

But otherwise, if it's a truly collaborate "Track Changes" type exercise, you would have to stick with MS Word after your first draft -- Pages2 really lacks collaborative features.

What manner of group work do you compile?
Do you use Word in addition to pages?