Illustrator files with PDF icons

Silly little problem. Running 10.4.11 on a G5 iMac, Illustrator CS2. Often when I save or resave an Illustrator file, the file's icon is PDF rather than Illustrator. I then have to Get Info on another Illustrator file, copy the icon, Get Info on the other file and paste the icon to restore it.
Any reason why this annoyance is happening and how to avoid it?
Thanks.

Just use Rainer's Nudge contextual menu to force the Finder to update the icon: http://www.brockerhoff.net/nudge/index.html.
Note that the issue you're seeing is merely cosmetic: even though the document has a PDF icon, it's still set to open in Illustrator.
The reason this occurs is that when Illustrator saves your file, it doesn't overwrite your original immediately, since if you were to lose power and your computer were to shut down, a half-written file would surely be corrupt, resulting in complete data loss. Instead, Illustrator writes the data out to a new file that happens to be named "Acro########.tmp", and by default, a file like that has a PDF icon and will be opened in Acrobat. After Illustrator has written out that file, it then deletes your original .ai file and renames the temp file to be just like your original .ai file. Unfortunately, the Finder still wants to hang on to the old icon which it has likely cached in its memory. Using Nudge will force it to re-examine the file and show the correct icon.
Hope this helps....

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