Illustrator Canvas Size (not Art Boards)

Hey, I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to increase the size of the canvas in Illustrator cs4 or cs5. The default seems to be about 228 inches but I need a bigger canvas size for a project I'm involved with.
I've been looking around and it doesn't seem like this is even an option but I figured I'd at least ask!
Thanks!

Conor,
In addition to the previous answers:
Working with vector artwork with the help of Illy, you may work at any scale and scale up in another application for print and still have everything fully smooth; PDF can be scaled to any size (with the same proportions).
Working with raster artwork with the help of Illy, you may also work at any scale and scale up similarly, if you have a sufficiently high resolution to result in a sufficiently smooth appearance at the final size; you may start with lower resolution copies and replace them when the rest of the work is finished, to avoid unnecessary waiting time. It should be noted that the needed smoothness/final resolution depends entirely (and inversely proportionally) on the distance of the viewer; generally, you can use the same total image size at different sizes to be viewed at (proportionally) corresponding distances (which will give the same appearance (and vieweing angle)).
Depending on the units and sizes, different scales may be easy to work with; that could be:
1:10, 1:100, etc, especially in mm and cm (using mm for cm is 1:10 in itself),
1:6 using picas for inches,
1:12 using points for picas,
1:72 using points for inches,
1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, etc, especially in inches.

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Have been looking on the internet as well as spending 3 hours on the phone to Adobe call centre in India!
No luck.
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i'm intrigued because to everyday illustrator users this is a very straightforward question to answer.
But Adobe can't be bothered with such things. It's too busy making sure everyone has paid their monthly rental fees. ;-)
New customers who are so outdated as to insist on using a phone (how churlish) are encouraged to call support outsources in India whose job it is to make sure everyone has paid for their phone call.
If you want to make a comment, criticism, or suggestion about products, you do that in the online manuals so that your comment, criticism, or suggestion can be redirected here to uncompensated users and presented as if it were a question.
If you actually want to ask a question and actually receive an answer (??!), you are supposed to ask them here where uncompensated users of unknown proficiency may or may not try to answer them and may or may not actually know what they're talking about.
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Hi,
In Illustrator, I am trying to create a new canvas that is 11.182x 8.65
but it won't allow me. Instead it rounds the number down and I end up with: 11.18x8.65
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When I try that it rounds it down for me in the same manner.
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mus,
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