Illustrator - save file problem

Illustrator 9.0.2 / Windows XP 5.1 : When in an Illustrator doc, when I do File Save, a dialog appears telling me a bit of useless info - "Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties" - seeing that the dialog tells one absolutely nothing about a solution ( ! ); when I look in Windows Explorer, anytime I get that message the file is shown as aad03108 or aad01272 or aab04020 (just noticed there seems to be a sequence when I have repeated the attempt to File Save; when I Save File As the same doc, it goes through the cycle OK; any ideas out there? Thanks.

Are you saving to a network drive or a local drive? And, did this just start happening? I'd take a look at your scratch disk space. Have you done any system maintenance like a defrag lately? Just a hunch, but maybe you're running out of space for a decent preview save.

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:41:40 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Illustrator CS4 wont save files, please help?
What file format do you save it in?
What kinds of changes did you make in that file?
Where do you save the file (removable or network media)?
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