Adobe Illustrator - menu freaking out

I recently installed Adobe Illustrator CS2 on my system, and for a while it worked fine. However about three weeks ago I launched it and the menus and submenus are all whacked out. For example: Instead of reading "File" it reads "$$$/_MBAR/Mn..."
and
"File > Open" reads "$$$/_MBAR/Mnu/File/New=&New"
Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? I tried dumping my Prefs, and it didn't work. I also tried re-installing Adobe CS2 but that didn't work either. All other Adobe CS2 programs seem fine - only Illustrator has this issue.
Thanks
imac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.8 GHz 1 GB DDR SDRAM

This is not an iMac problem but an Illustrator problem.
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