Can't open Illustrator CS3, was fine before

All CS3 apps working fine for the last few years, except that all of a sudden I can't open Illustrator. Gives me FOConversion Suite plugin missing and quits. When I go to the folder, I've noticed this file is 0 bytes. How did this happen? More importantly, how to fix it? I read and read and can't find solution. I renamed so far preferences folder (Illustrator created new one on next (also failed) startup; I made sure that fonts Segua UI and tahoma are installed and working, and I have working, updated anti-virus. What can I do to fix/replace foconversionsuite.aip file? Operating system is Windows 7 64-bit.

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Hey, thanks for reading.
I'm having a strange problem with Illustrator CS5 and ESTK CS5. I'm new to writing ExtendScripts, so I haven't a clue what could be going wrong here but here's the skinny:
I've written the following code, which is very specialized to the exact document I'm working with. Using the ExtendScript Toolkit, the script goes through the following loops:
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The only error I ever get is "Can't open illustration." There's never anything more helpful, so I have no idea what could be going wrong.
If there's any more information that would be of use to anyone I'd be happy to share. This is wasting a lot of my time and making me pull my hair out like crazy,

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Secondly your symbols… You know you can just change the symbol instance's symbol reference…? If they are almost the same particualy size then its an easy swap…?
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iag,
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http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/opening-illustrator-file-get-error.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/enable-content-recovery-mode-illustrator.html
http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/
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Edit: almost an hour after midnight here so I have to attend to other duties. The very best of luck.

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