My iMac won't run Lion?

I have a 2006 iMac with a 2 GHz Dual Core processor. I also have a mobile me account, an iPhone and iPad. Yesterday I tried to buy Lion on the App store. I got a message that the processor isn't suitable, and I could not download Lion. I need to get into iCoud to synch everything. Do I have any alternative to buying a new computer?

No. Lion only works on Core 2 Duo or Xeon processors with at least 2 GBs of installed RAM.

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Road Hazard: Try the instructions in this article. It is not possible to use the Panther installation disks to repair the permissions on a system which is experiencing this issue.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. I never installed the Snow Leopard 10.6 that came with the iMac. I've been waiting till I read a bit more about it! PE3 is the only Adobe product on this computer. I downloaded a trial version of the new PE8 and I was pleased with it. It seems a good idea to up grade now and avoid any future problems with incompatibility.
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It means that you cannot run Illustrator on a Power PC version of a Mac but if you have Lion installe then you have an Intel iMac so this should not be a problem.
I have two suggestions one is to go to the User/Username/Library/Preferences and trash com.adobe.illustrator.plist and if you also have it com.adobe.illustrator.plist.lockfile. The firt oe you should have the second one I ahve just observed for the first time on my Mac so I am not certain of why it is there. But if you have it trash it as well.
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