Can you help open Illustrator 9.0.1?

When I double click to open Illustrator, instead of Illustrator the Apple Script Script Editer opens. My computer is a Power Mac G4 running OS10.4.11. This machine with this specific version of the operating system has run this version of Illustrator sucessfully for several years ( the OS runs in the Classic mode when doing this). I do not recall purposely making any change in my hardware or software. The problem just mysteriously started one day several weeks ago. The Genius Bar folks at Apple contend that there is nothing wrong from a hardware standpoint.
I am not aware of other software problems. For instance Photoshop seems to open and run perfectly. Unknown to me has some automatic software update caused this? Incidentally I did try reinstalling the 9.0.1 software. This seemed to make no difference. This morning I tried to install version 9.0.2 just to see if it would make a difference, but the install stopped short and would not proceed.
My apologies if there is some obvious fix or work around for this. Please pass along any thoughts. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Mike, Scott, and Wade. I'm working on your suggestions. Sorry I'm brand new to the forum and painfully slow figuring out what I'm doing. At least I can respond on a couple of points.
When I mentioned double clicking to try to open AI I was referring to double clicking on the application in the AI folder in the Applications folder in the Finder (if I'm using the right terminology). The AI icon is no longer in the dock. It disappeared from the dock when I first started to experience the Apple Script problem.
Incidentally when I tried opening AI the first few times what opened, as I remember, was Automator. On the screen the Automator window labled "Get Specified Finder Items" had listed under "Name" - "Adobe Illustrator 9.0.1".
Below is the screen shot you asked to see:
This seems to illustrate the idea that Apple Script is seeing Illustrator as a document. You can see the "Open with" box is showing "Script Editor." The alternatives also available but not shown are "Automator" and "Adobe Reader" neither of which actually opens AI either.
For the time being I will try again reinstalling AI. I tried it before but Apple Script still opened when I double clicked AI after the reinstall. I will also take a look at how/in what way AI may have been (unwittingly) moved. That very possibly may have been the source of the ongoing problem.
Thanks again for your thoughts on all of this. -John G

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