Illustrator wierd grey screen and loading icon bug

Weird one here - When illustrator opens from startup - it creates two window panes. One with all the windows I had open on a previous session of illustrator, and another with all the same tabs, but the whole window is greyed out and theres a large loading icon over it.
It doesn't really cause issues, and illustrator works normally - but it is quite odd, I thought I'd see if anyone else had the issue.
I'm working on iOS mountain lion, and illustrator CS5
Thanks

I see 10.6.3 in your profile---is tthat what you are trying to load? If so, it won't work. No PowerPC Mac like your G5 can run a Mac OS version higher than 10.5.8

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