Illustrator CS4 crashes when saving. (OSX)

We currently have a few users at my company that are experiencing problems saving specific documents in Illustrator CS4. Most of the documents that they save work just fine and can be edited on other machines with no flaws.  But a handful of the files crash everytime they go to save and is causing quite the headache over here. It also seems to happen when they copy a certain part of the document over to a completely separate one. Currently this is happening on a 10.4.8 & 10.6.1 system along with a single Windows 7 machine. Here are some of the things that I've tried to fix the problem:
-Cleaned OSX Cache
-Repaired permissions
-Deleted the com.adobe.CSXPreferences.plist (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1901414)
-Reinstalled the entire CS4 Suite
-Fully update Mac/Adobe software
-Cleaned/Repaired fonts by using FontDoctor
If anyone has any suggestions on what could be causing these random unexpended problems I would be very thankful,
-Matt

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