Fonts are choppy in illustrator CS5 :(

I just installed this few minutes ago then this thing annoys me
http://imgur.com/Zhg3m.png
i am so irritated! it doesnt look like this in photoshop and dreamweaver! please tell me if i need to install something or restart
I didnt check ALL of the programs i just choose some(in the part of checking "media player, extension etc")
please help me
it may not be that very noticeable in the photo but trust me, there is NO font smoothing
and this is my very first illustrator so i dont know what to do :/

The monitor is not an exact represenation of the banding, but is actually often very close. Depending on on which print process (dry, flexo, roto, litho) the banding will change with litho having the fewest and dry offset the most. Postscript Level 3 has some correction for this, so that is one reason why we have seen less of this.
To correct change your color values so that you do not get a small change in tint value over a long distance, or you can bitmap your gradient in photoshop and add a little spatter or noise if you prefer in the problem channels, that helps disrupt out the bands.

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Hello Adobe Community,
I am in desperate need of help with my Illustrator CS5 program. It has suddenly started to crash when I scroll through the Font menu from the Type menu at the top of the program. I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 13" with retina display on OSX 10.9.2. I am using Illustrator CS5 v15.0.0. I have read through scores of forum threads and tried every solution that was suggested and still cannot resolve this problem. I am stumped and my back is up against the wall. My work flow has now slowed to crawl since I have to now search through fonts using FontBook then manually type in the font I need in the font character field. I believe this problem is due to a corrupt font. The trouble started after I installed a new font. I have since deactivated and deleted that font but the problem persists. I am not a "tech head" so I don't know how to generate those long code pages that some can. I can make pretty pictures with Adobe products but I can't service those Adobe products.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far (at least what I remember):
*     I have deactivated and deleted the font I believed to be corrupt.
*     I have validated all my fonts with FontBook and deleted all corrupt files.
*     I have turned off the "enable missing glyph protecting" in the preferences.
*     I have used FontNuke to delete my font caches.
*     I have reset my Pram.
*     I have repaired all my permission with disk utility.
*     I have removed all fonts except for the standard system fonts.
*     I have uninstalled Illustrator and done a clean install (my system was migrated from a backup-however is has worked fine for months).
*     I have deleted my library/preferences/abobefnt.plst.
*     I have change the font preview to small.
*     I deleted all my fonts and restored them from time machine from before I had installed that last font I believed to be buggy.
*     I have prayed to Jebus.
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Update - I figured out how those crash reports are done so if anyone thinks they can help but needs to see a report please let me know and I will paste it into a reply.
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