CAN'T SAVE CS3

I have been running CS3 for a while now and have never been able to save in it. All I get is an "unknown error has occured" message. I have reinstalled numerous times, but nothing fixes the issue. I have to save down in Illustrator 8.0 in order for my files to save. I would REALLY like a solution to this problem, as I purchased the CS3 full package, I would love to be able to use it to it's potential.
I have been looking in forums and have made several posts, but no one seems to know an answer.
I am running on a PC, Windows XP Professional, Adobe Master Collection CS3

Well, looking at your post history see that you never posted this question in the AI forums. So why not try there? also it would hugely help to know what other (Adobe) software is on the system, what printer drivers are installed etc.. This kind of error usually boils down to either trying to embed specific print or or color profile options or something with the globalyl shared PDF libraries being awry. It simply works as the legacy format, because it doesn't use any of these options...
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