Illustrator CS 5.1 freezing when selecting File Open

Hi - Recently Illustrator CS 5.1 will not let me use File >> Open to open a document. It immediately hangs and I get the beach ball and have to force quit (on a Mac) and in the force quit menu the program name will turn to red and say not responding. I can open new docs as well as double click and drag files over the AI icon with no issue. Saving seems to be fine as well. Any ideas as to what would be causing this? I've checked all fonts and everything gets a clean bill of health there. Plus no new fonts have been installed.
Thanks for any input!

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kwin(2583)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::slotReceivedId: 0
kwin(2583)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::close: 0
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kwin(2583)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::~KNotification: -2
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kwin(2583)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::~KNotification: -2
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