Freehand crashes in Snow Leopard when opening files

Question

If you have the problem of Freehand MX etc crashing when opening files in Snow Leopard then this is for you.
In the Freehand application folder is a application callled (Freehand Clip Art Viewer) open this and use it to navigate to you file location, have Freehand open. Then just double click on the thumbnail of your file and it will open without any crash report.
Would pay to add this to the dock beside the Freehand Icon.
After an hour on the phone help desk advised me that freehand has been upgraded to Illustrator... Some people dont want this and i hope its helps a few hardcore Freehand nutters :-)

Answer 1

Thanks for the tip. I'll add another.
I've come across a few old-version FH files with missing fonts that would crash FH.
I use FontAgent Pro, with auto-activation turned on, as my font manager. Usually there's no problem. FAP activates unactivated fonts and the file opens properly.
However, I think that Snow Leopard sometimes incorrectly deals with font info in old FH files, and this can lead to a crash. 
I find that if I open the FontAgent Pro application window first, and then open the problem file in FH, there's no crash. I get Freehand's 'missing font' dialog and am able to select an alternate font.