Illustrator CS5.1 won't open on iMac running Lion

Hello,
I have an iMac I bought this year running Lion, and just installed Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium. All the applications will open except for Illustrator, which gives me the error message: "You can't open the application Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."
What does this mean, and is there a way to fix it?
Thanks,
Josh

It means that you cannot run Illustrator on a Power PC version of a Mac but if you have Lion installe then you have an Intel iMac so this should not be a problem.
I have two suggestions one is to go to the User/Username/Library/Preferences and trash com.adobe.illustrator.plist and if you also have it com.adobe.illustrator.plist.lockfile. The firt oe you should have the second one I ahve just observed for the first time on my Mac so I am not certain of why it is there. But if you have it trash it as well.
The second is to repair yur permissions.
The third suggestion is to unistal and reinstall the Suite usig the Adobe installer utility in the Uttilities Folder.

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