Illustrator CC issues, not opening legacy files or fonts?

Using CC for a few weeks and I am not yet convinced of its quality over my faithful CS5. I have an issue with files not opening, they may once when I start Illustrator, but then they do not again. Illustrator doesn't freeze, it allows me to carry on with the file I am working on but I can not open any legacy file?. I have tried opening by double click, by file>open, I have opened a legacy file back in CS5 copied the graphics and attempted to paste them into my CC document and nothing, the only way I can get around this is to shut the program and or machine down and start again?
Also the same with fonts, if I have a file open, and open fonts afterwards, Illustrator has a mind of its own whether it wants to show the fonts or not. Some days its happy to, others it has a bad day and will not show them in the list at all no matter how many times I reload them, only a shut down fixes this?
Is there a preference I am missing to allow legacy files?

There's no problem with opening CC files in CS5, I am finding when CC starts being problematic I am downsaving my CC file (current file I am working on, as I can still use this) to a Legacy CS5 and finishing the job in CS5 just for speed as I can then open my original CS5 files that I need without issue.
It is peculiar, it has just done it again, I can start up Illustrator and it will open a legacy file, but a few hours after use, I try to re-open the same legacy file and nothing, no error, no file opens, nothing, I can still work on the file I am in, but no joy with opening the old file.
There is a clash, or preference inconsistency, I just can't figure out what it is yet, I was hoping for ideas from the good folk out there .......

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