Designers for a Better Illustrator

Recently I paid the upgrade tax to CSDP5, mainly because we have been getting more and more files in the newer format. I have worked with several vector design applications over the years (Freehand, FlexiSign, Corel) and appreciate the industry standardization that Adobe brings to the table. However, with each new iteration of the application (and another $600 paid), I get more and more resentful of the 'candy stuck to the side of a card shack' improvements. New features are great, and can advance the envelope, but it is a little frustrating when it still takes a doctorate in linguistic ellipses to get text on both sides of a circle. Or that Illustrator doesn't take advantage of the built-in spell checking feature OS X brings to the table (with the handy squiggle). Or, and this is my biggest pet peeve, that you cannot assign function keys to tools (especially the eyedropper/text tool). And there are hundreds more great suggestions for improving the program -- just spend a few hours reading the forums... I'd love to love Illustrator again -- come on Adobe, rewrite the application for modern operating systems -- give it the overhaul you gave PageMaker when you brought out InDesign. For that, I would be willing to pay the full price of admission.
Peace!
-g-

First things first - this should've been 64-Bit a while back. We're limited to 4GB of RAM - on systems that can support up to 32GB! As POP and Wide Format options have exploded the demand for larger, more complicated layouts at larger sizes and at higher resolutions has also grown. We run into the "unable to preview" error more than we used to in CS3.
Second - stability. Of the three installations of Illustrator CS5, two are constantly crashing - multiple times a day. These are fairly clean systems without a lot of extraneous software running. Yes, I can troubleshoot the preferences, reinstall the apps, etc., but we've only been running CS5 for about 3 or 4 months, installed on clean Snow Leopard installs. For two of those to have so much trouble is bothersome. These are newer MacPros with 16GB RAM - and the software is the bottleneck.
Finally - fix some bugs before releasing the next version.
Ugh - I've never had more of a love/hate relationship than I have with Illustrator. I know designers and illustrators that still rock AI 8 because it is the most usable version of the software! Pros, Adobe, are still using V8 of your software because of stability/usability issues.
Mkay - my two cents. Back to troubleshooting our exploding software.

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