Illustrator CS2 crashes at launch about the time fonts load

Question

I can not get illustrator CS2 to launch. Watching the splash screen/loader screen - illustrator seems to crash when loading the fonts. It isnt one font inparticular.
I have reinstalled the application and still cant get it to run.

Answer 1

It's grayed out because you need to change the
owner.
For this you'll need the Admin password for your
computer.
Click on the little padlock and change the owner to
your account. The group can be Admin.
From here, set "Other" to read & Write.
Apply to all enclosed items.
Before anyone trys to yell saying, "That's a huge
application security risk" we are trying to figure
this out without demolishing what the user has so
far. If this is successful, we can always go back and
tighten things back up.
Not working. I am thinking my font issue is not resolved. It is still quitting at the loading of fonts. I did get one error saying there was an error loading plug ins.- I have checked all my other applications and they are working- Quark, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Acrobat..
I am not on a network- this is a stand alone computer.
When I ran verify disk an error came up the said (in red) invaild file name..