Find Font Dialog box opening Ai files

The Find Font box always opens immediately upon some Ai CS3 files, even when there are no missing or substituted fonts indicated.
User has to hit done to clear the box. It is anoying several users thru out the studio....
Any ideas what would cause this?

One possibility though unlikely is that there is a symbol with a font that was saved with the default document profile and it contains a font that is not being recognized however that woud not affect Illustrator when launching without creating a docuent first.
So this not likely then it would mean one of two things the font cache is corrupt and/or the prefences are corrupt.
Always give some idea of your system and version of Illustrator and something about your plug ins as well.
That is also a possiblity you have a plug in that might have a conflict causing this and or a thrid party application running which is in conflict with Illustrator.This should go without saying always when you have strange behavior to suspect a conflict.
Are you runing or haave you installed any knew fonts or plug ins or software any updates.
You should tell us about these things. Remember we do not know how you are set up.
But you can try this
Mac
1. Quit Illustrator.
2.Go to User/username/Library/Preferences/ Adobe illustrator CS# Settings and trash the settings folder, the whole folder not just the contents of the folder..
3. Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences file.
PC
1. Quit Illustrator.
2. Rename the AIPrefs file (for example, to AIPrefs.old) in the Users/(user)/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS# Settings folder.
3. Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences file.

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