Mac OSX 10.6.8 All CS 3 applications crash at launch

I have had issues using CS3 running on a Mac Pro but after several tries the software woudl start up.  all of a sudden, NONE of the Adobe CS3 apps will load.  I get the error message "Adobe Illustrator (photoshop, Dreamweaver etc) quit unexpectedly.  Acrobat 8 does run however........HELP PLEASE!!   

Hi all,
I am living in China and getting the same thing. Its very recent but it seems ChinaUnicom are trying to takover Google, BBC, NYT and other URL's and point you to their own web services (of course fully supported by the Chinese Government). Behaviour is very sporadic, sometimes Chrome, but mostly Firefox. I have checked host files, dns, everything and the only way to stop it is to delete all cookies and history from the browser after infection and restart. Its a total pain as I have the Google double sign in system turned on and I have to re-authenticate twice to get into my Gmail.
I also have the greyed out DNS entries but they are legit servers - Google 8.8.8.8 and our company one. Maybe they are taking over the google 8.8.8.8 in the Great firewall of China? However once infected and I am in my office (has a tunnel throught the Chinese Firewall) I still get the re-direct and from reading this thread users returning to the USA still are infected so it can not be the GFC!
The thing that makes me think its not DNS is, on the same system I can have it happen in Firefox but not Chrome at the same time, unless the cookies can somehow override DNS.
I can also see that a site actually begins to load and then sometime through the page load (before it completes) the redirect happens.
I would love to know how they are doing this but I dont want to share my cookies with the world! I am 90% convinced this is where its happening.
Any ideas from any of the big brains out there.

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