Distiller 6 does not produce PDF...then beachballs

I've been trying to generate PDFs using Distiller 6, but am running into some odd problems.
I generate a .ps file out of Illustrator CS using the Printer>Adobe PostScript File option and "Adobe PDF" as the PPD. I save that directly to the Distiller watched folder.
Distiller then goes through it's paces and appears to generate a PDF. No errors are shown. However, a PDF never appears in the Out folder. Additionally, immediately after Distiller does it's thing, it beachballs and has to be force-quit.
A search for any file with the name that the PDF should have shows nothing. I'm not using any special settings in Distiller. Usually the defaults. Sometimes I turn-off image downsampling.
2x2 G5 OSX 10.3.9
Ideas?
Thanks,
Jim

Also try reducing the complexity - drop the .ps directly onto the open
Distiller window - what now happens?
Jon

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