Illustrator help..save to PDF not working.

I am just trying to save a PDF from my illustrator file. However, when I go to Save as, and select PDF, no dialog box opens to allow me to set how I want the file outputted. IF I just hit enter, the file does save.. its just like the Dialog box is hidden or not appearing. The reason I need the dialog box is because I need to add bleeds to the PDF and my default save doesn't do that. Any ideas or anyone else have this problem? Thanks!

Yeah, be sure that you shutdown Illustrator before you remove the old preferences.
Move your old Illustrator preferences to the desktop or trash in case something goes wrong
Go to your home folder
~/Library/Preferences/
folder:
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Library Settings
file:
com.adobe.illustrator.plist
I hope this helps.

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