HELP Illustrator CS4 Freezes when I open program

I tried reinstalling, rebooting and nothing it opens as normal, but just sits their and beeps at me. I am running Win XPro 3. It will open a file, but just sits their again and beeps at me.
Any suggestions?
Chebly9

Look up how to delete you Adobe Illustrator CS 4 Settings folder in your users account.
I believe it might be located somewhere in you Document and settings directory on your C drive.

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