I can't open illustrator 10 on Vista

Hi,
I'm having some trouble opening illustrator 10 on vista. Everytime I try to open it, I get a pop up window about the color scheme not being
Compatiable .I was wondering can anyone help me out?

The color scheme warning is not related to AI itself. It's a system warning. To turn it off, find the Illustrator.exe (should be C:\ProgramFiles\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 10), right-click, choose Properties and modify the Compatibility options.
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Hey, thanks for reading.
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I've written the following code, which is very specialized to the exact document I'm working with. Using the ExtendScript Toolkit, the script goes through the following loops:
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For some reason, running this script causes Illustrator to become somehow corrupted. I can continue working with the document as long as it is open, but if I try to close it and re-open it, I get the infuriatingly unhelpful error dialog "Can't open illustration." With no extra details.
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There are 4 "Buttons" on the document, and a library full of nearly-identical symbols in the Library (different colored backgrounds for the buttons).
The script cycles through every symbol in the library, replacing and deleting instances of the previous symbol.
Then, for each symbol, it cycles through an array (technically an object-literal) of { language-code: "string" } pairs, and saves a .png of each artboard for each word.
What follows is a pared-down version of the full script:
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This script (in its original form) outputs a ton of files very, very quickly.
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var folder = Folder.selectDialog();                     // Ask for a folder choice.
var aDoc = app.activeDocument;                        // Declare an active Document reference.
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var textFrms = aDoc.textFrames;                       // Get all text frames, for language swap
var allSymbols = aDoc.symbols;                         // Get array of all symbols in the symbol library
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    de: "hilfe",
    el: "Bοήθεια",
    en: "help",
    es: "ayuda",
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The only error I ever get is "Can't open illustration." There's never anything more helpful, so I have no idea what could be going wrong.
If there's any more information that would be of use to anyone I'd be happy to share. This is wasting a lot of my time and making me pull my hair out like crazy,

I have not had the time to look over your script but at a glance there are a few things I would handle differently…
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So I've come back to this, and I think I narrowed it down to something that has to do with pattern swatches.
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