How big is too big for Illustrator CS4

I have been working with Illustrator for a little while now, and have been asked to create a piece of artwork 10,000 pixels wide, the height would be about 8,500 high.
My understanding is that they want to use the on a very large sign on the lawn of their sales center.
Could someone tell me what the size limit is for illustrator CS4?
Thank you,
Del

Thanks for all the info.
I have attached a pdf with some of the sign composition. Everything except the tree object is illustrator vector, using quite a few layers. Missing from the pdf are two lines of text for the name and location of the properties, there is also a vector log that is missing.
The tree is an 8.25mb jpg. I placed it on a separate layer in the illustrator sign doc. I’m making wooded areas (forest) around much of the perimeter using this tree. I also speckle much of the properties with trees.
I am using hundreds of these trees to do this, many are resized very small for single trees on the property lots and many are stretched and reshaped to make forests, with small trees add to that.
Everything is ok until I get about 2/3s of it done and then I can’t save anymore and the file can’t be opened after that.
I know I’m using a tremendous amount of space with these trees, (gig’s worth now that I think about it) but how small can I make the tree image size and it still look high quality?
There must be a better, easyer way of getting the results I need.
I’m not familiar with Document Raster Effects Settings, but I’ll be using physical size from now on.
Thanks,
Del

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