Artboards disappearing in Illustrator CS4

I'm using Illustrator CS4 on Mac OSX 10.6 and have created a 12 page document for folks at work.
Every time I re-open the document to make amends all but the first artboard have disappeared.
All the artwork content is still there, layers are fine etc but where the outline of the artboard page was there are now only guides Which are added to a layed named 'Guides For Artboard'.
When I create a PDF of this file it only does the one, first page. It's like it doesn't realise the rest of the pages exist.
But this doesn't happen to every document. It keeps happening to this one, it's happened to others but then when I open them again later they are fine.
Is this a bug??
This file was created new in CS4 and is only edited by myself on the same machine.
Any suggestions would save me some serious grief!!
Ta

No it's saved as a CS4 ai file.
But that did get me wondering, so I saved it as a AI CS3 file and upon reopening that it's done the same thing, added guides where my artboards were.
That makes sense as CS3 doesn't support multiple artboards.
But I am saving all my artworks as CS4 files and it's doing this to some of them which is what I don't understand.
Just wondered if there was a setting i'd missed or something

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