Fix for illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop crashing when using keys place

I suffered too long and couldn't find a solution under I read this. I wanted to pass it on to you so I can give back.
Everytime in illustrator when I tried to relink my files or place something, it would crash. In InDesign the same thing if I exported. I know there are many more, but those were the ones that I was using. Go here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402521.html
viola!!

Nini's probably right. But I remember having the same sort of trouble in Illy5. There was some sort of conflict between Acrobat and Illy so that when you had been using Acrobat and then switched back to Illy it became impossible to place images or select already placed images without Illy crashing. The crash was so pervasive that you had to restart your machine to get things back on track; it wasn't enough to just restart Illy. We never discovered the reason but the problem disappeared on upgrading to Illy6.

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