Acrobat 8 Mac G4, G5 Combine files issue

We run Acrobat 8 Professional on a number of our machines (G4s & G5s) running OSX.
On the majority of machines, when trying to use the menu item 'Combine Files', the files can be selected moved to the dialogue box, but when the 'Create' button is pressed Acrobat crashes.
Does/has anyone suffer/ed similiar and know of a fix?
Steve

Also, what version of OSX are you running?
Are you combining files over the network, or are the files resident to a solitary computer when you are combining?

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