How do I open a PDF file (created in Illustrator) that suddenly refuses to open in Illustrator?

Hello everyone. I'm having a strange issue that seems to have happened out of nowhere. I use a variety of Adobe Products for work and have been using Illustrator for a few basic brochures (I know InDesign is probably recommended more for brochures, but I just prefer Illustrator).
I actually design them in two files with a "front" and "back." I then merge the PDFs together into one file and send them to the printing company.
Recently, I've been working on one of these brochures. One morning I came into work and attempted to open the "inside" file for the brochure. Unfortunately, I receive an error message that says "Could not open the file." The file was saved as a PDF with Illustrator editing capabilities. I've been working on it for weeks and it only now stopped working. It does open in Adobe Reader as a standard PDF. Just doesn't make any sense to me. The "front" of the brochure opens normally in both Illustrator or Adobe Reader.
On a related (or unrelated?) note, I'm also getting far more crashes lately.
Any thoughts as to what could be going wrong? I've updated all my drivers, Illustrator, my GPU, windows updates, etc...
CS6
Windows 7 Professional
8GB RAM
Intel Core i7
AMD Radeon HD 6350

RR,
One thing often tried first is to create a new document and File>Place the corrupted one to see how much may be rescued that way (remember to tick Paste remembers Layers in the Layer palette flyout/dropdown first, and to untick it afterwards).
Here is a website where you can see whether it can rescue the file, and if it can, you may pay for a subscription to have it done,
http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_illustrator.html
and another similar website,
http://markzware.com/adobe-software/fix-illustrator-file-unknown-error-occurred-pdf2dtp-fi le-recovery/
As far as I remember, the former is for Win and the latter for Mac.
Here are a few pages about struggling with it yourself:
http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-damaged-illustrator-files.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50032.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/enable-content-recovery-mode-illustrator.html
Failing a full recovery, hopefully you have one or more earlier versions and/or bits of artwork saved before it happened.

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