Lion, Illustrator CS4 and PowerPC

I have just upgraded my iMac OS to Lion. I went to open Illustrator CS4 and I get the following message:
"You can't open the application Adober Illustrator CS because PowerPC applications are no longer supported"
Any ideas to resolve this issue please?

You simply will never be able to run Illustrator CS on OS10.7. You'll need Illustrator CS3 or better.
Mac OS 10.7 does not support PPC architecture and anything prior to CS3 is build on PPC architecture. OS 10.6 and earlier had support for PPC architecture via Apple's Rosetta translator. Rosetta is no longer supported in OS 10.7.
You'll have to either down-grade the OS to 10.6 or earlier, or upgrade Illustrator to CS3 or better.

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