Illustrator CS3 acts weird...what is this?

hi all,
Mac Pro 2.8 Quad Core w. 4Gb memory. Recently Illustrator acts very weird. I open a file and Illustrator doesn't let me do anything as if the layers were locked (it's not), can't select etc etc...
but if I open the Layer Option window then everything went back to normal...
- I check the file's permission, it's Read and Write
- the file is not locked...
- I use Activity monitor to check the memory status, it's around 3.80Gb used
- this happens with all Illustrator file, not one particular...
anyone has an idea of what's going on..?
many thanks

thanks Scott...
done... and Illustrator run with way less memory and the total memory for used for the whole machine is low too....

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