Freezing when saving to share drive.

Hi everyone,
I am posting here because I have been troubleshooting an issue for a couple weeks now with no resolution. I had the CS4 design suite with Photoshop and Illustrator on a Windows 7 64bit computer and was having issues with Illustrator freezing and going to "(Not Responding)" when I would try to save to a share drive on our server, but when I would save to the local computer, it wouldn't have any issues at all. After reading about this issue for a while, I decided to buy the CS5 suite and upgrade due to compatibility issues on CS4. Well now I am on CS5 and having the same issues. If anyone knows why I am having this issue or some steps to try to resolve it, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
James

The drive is just a shared drive on the server that the user has full permissions to.
When I save to the desktop and copy that over to the server, it's instant. Yes we could save to the server before. That was when we were using CS4 on an XP Pro 32 Bit computer. When we upgraded her to 64 bit, the issues started. There are no new plug in's that I am aware of.
I also had her try to save to the server with PDF Compatibility off and it still froze.
Very frustrating, but thanks for your reply.

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