Acrobat 8 won't open

I am running a Mac Leopard 10.5.8 and CS3. Acrobat Professional 8 will not open, and is affecting the rest of the Suite applications, meaning...for example in Illustrator I can't save any document if I check the option PDF Compatible File when I save a file. I have uninstalled and reinstalled CS3, but no luck. I called Adobe and no luck there either. I am not sure if this is an update issue with apple or adobe. I have been using CS3 with no problems at all for over a year, and then all of a sudden it doesn't work. Please help!!!!

You are not going to believe this....I did an Erase and Install on Leopard and did NO upgrades on the OS. Then I installed Adobe CS3 and did NO upgrades. Then I tested my file...my process is.....copy and paste my layers from one file to a new illustrator file and checked the option in the layers palette Paste Remembers Layers before pasting. I hit Save file with PDF Compatible file option checked and I got the beach ball of death again and had to Force Quit. I waited 5 min. or more before quiting. Obviously this is not an update or a corrupt preference file issue. I guess it's just the limitations of Illustrator CS3. Just weird how I never had this problem before in the 2 years I have been using Illustrator CS3. I can save files with the PDF Compatible file option, but I think when I try to save a big file all at once it won't save. When I don't check the option PDF Compatible file, it does save. Do you have anything to add? I'm lost for words now.

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