Illustrator CS5: Slow to save documents

Hi! I'm Christ, new to Adobe forums!
We have someone using Illustrator CS5, and working with file from 10mb to 500mb, most of the time. The problem is that, when you open, okay it's slow since it's a file over the network (400mb), but when you save it, network or not, it is VERY but VERY slow. I mean, you click on save, then save the file, then Illustrator does the program not responding, then you wait, about 15s, and the little window that show the progress comes up. You wait after this progress bar for like 30-40s. It does the same thing, kind same time, for a 100mb file.
One of my friend told me he has the same problem, but he never had that problem with CS2 illustrator.
Our computer:
Intel E8400 3ghz
4gb of RAM
HDD 160gb 7200rpm
Windows XP SP3 up to date (we did try on the same machine, but with a windows 7, same problem)
Friend computer:
AMD Athlon II X4 635 2.9ghz
4gb of RAM
HDD 500gb 7200rpm
Windows XP SP3 up to date (Does on 2 computer with same spec) (on CS2, was not that long, with a AMD Athlon X2 4200+, and 3gb of ram)
Any help is appreciated!
Many Thanks
Christ

It works.
I tried it, and it is much faster.
Many thanks!
Christian

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