Illustrator CS3 .ai's with XML?

We are now experiencing majorly insane issues with our .ai files, which appear to involve XML tagging. Here's what's going on:
+when copied as a complete object, a box of text behaves normally. (though it takes a very long time to copy and paste)
+when words within a text box or line of text are copied, they now paste as 100+ lines of code.
In Illustrator - The code does not contain the originally copied text when pasted alone or into exiting text elements
In Text Edit - The code contains the original copied text at the top, but does not contain all of the code seen in illustrator.
+when objects are copied and pasted into new documents, they import 30+ rows of swatches. Copying and pasting takes several minutes, even for a simple 4 anchor box.
+File size is massively inflated (a 1MB file becomes a 32MB file)
!! no information appears in the variables window !!
Issues can be partially eliminated by returning to Adobe Illustrator 10, however irreparable damage is done to the file in the process.
any thoughts?

Hiya,
welcome to discussions and to the apple world. Have you tried to update to V.13.0.2?
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=27&platform=Macintosh
NB: Not sure if 13.0.1 fixes it or if you need 13.0.2. But try to install it, launch illustrator and see if you have the same issues.
Also, Versioncue could cause an issue (as demonstrated in thread 14). I'd recommend to use the Adobe Auto updater to update your entire suite
Message was edited by: Alexandre
NB2: sometimes, disk permissions may be an issue, too. Run disk utility (especially before updating any Apple software http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452 )
Message was edited by: Alexandre

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