Customizing Quick Tools  in Acrobat X let it crash

Hello,
ich freshly installed the Creative Suite Design Premium 5.5 and now test the Programs.
When I customize the quick tools  in Acrobat X (e.g. adding an item), Acrobat crashes, when I click the OK Button of the customization window (this open a second time after the first OK-click, when clicking OK again, Acrobat X crashes.).
I use:
Mac OS X 10.6.7
Creative Suite Design Premium 5.5
Also installed and heavily used before is Creative Suite Design Premium 4
Important hint: I did a test as another user, in my case as root, in whose account I normally never work with the Creativ Suite(s). When logging in as root and starting Acrobat X, the customizing does NOT fail. So I think, the error has to do with some corrupt preference file or similar from prior CS4 use, but I couldn't find the culprit.
What reason could my problem have?
Regards, Joachim

I have to update this for the sake of completeness and to avoid misleading people.
I thought that the above had sorted it out: however, the problem came back and was then completely intractable - I could no longer do anything with it at all.
In the end after trying quite a few other solutions I backed up, removed and recreated my user account. This fixed this problem, and a couple of other software issues besides. It was not without pain, and I would advocate great care and/or expert help in doing this, but it is nice to have my programs working properly again.
Best wishes to all
V

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