Graphic Styles Freezes on Mac

With the latest Illustrator update through Creative Cloud, every time I try to open the Graphic Styles panel my Illustrator gets the spinning beach ball on the Mac (OS 10.7.5) and I have to force quit. Anyone else having this issue?

The default styles that populate that palette are coming from files in this folder.
Here are the files in that folder for CS5, CS6 should be similar.
Sometimes these files get their access preferences corrupted, hence why I had repair disk permissions.
Try making a new document, using a differnt document profiles to see if possibly the one you are using is corrupt.
If that does not work, try creating a new user account log in as that.

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