Flash CS4 crashes when I select font.

Ok, so this is a new one. Every time I go to choose a font Flash either crashes or stalls.
I haven't added any fonts recently. One thing I did notice is that FontBook suddenly enabled ALL of my fonts.
I went through disabled all but the essentials. Still happens though.
I basically can't use Flash right now if it has anything to do with fonts... which is 90% of the time.
Any ideas?
I'm on a 2009 Mac Pro with 8 cores, 16gig of ram and am using Snow Leopard.

Make sure you update to Flash 10.0.2 - it may be a performance/memory usage issue on publish of the older files.

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Hi Jen,
I'm putting the file up on our website for you to grab.
Please treat this file confidentially.
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