My vector drawings in illustrator cs3 look pixelated plz see screenshot

**** Notice the side of the girls hair its very serrated and somewhat blurry as well look down at her arm at the very bottom
I am using a mac os x version 10.5.8 and have been using Illustrator cs3 that I purchased for about 2 years and its never had this problem till now. I've just recently noticed a few days back that my vector drawings created in illustrator are looking serrated on the edges of my drawing, and this jagged serrated line goes all along the sides of the vector image and doesn't seem to go away when I zoom in or out......
And from what I know vector drawings created in illustrator can be resized and never pixelate but i don't know why its doing this.
I've searched online for all the possible remedies but nothing seems to get rid of that serrated line which makes my images look fuzzy on the sides.
I've made sure that I'm in preview and not pixel preview but that didn't work.
I went to my illustrator preferences to make sure that anti-aliasing is checked but that didn't seem to fix it either.
I went under the effects menu and clicked on Document Raster Effect Settings and changed that to 300ppi but that didn't do it either.
And also when I take my vector drawing from illustrator into photoshop, the serrated lines become more evident. I don't know what to do. The strange thing is that when i print the images out from my printer, the serrated edges don't show up.
But here's the thing: when I open up my past work that I created in illustrator when I wasn't having this problem, for some reason they are also now showing up with that serrated line on the edges, its really weird!!!!!
I've tried everything except for reinstalling the software, but just wanted to know if someone could help me before I tried this step or knew of something that might have gone wrong.
I also downloaded illustrator trial version cs5 today, and its doing the same thing as my illustrator cs3!!!!
Plz help!!!

I was experiencing the exact same thing in Illustrator CS5. There was a pixelated edge on a vector drawing that was showing up. At first I assumed it was an anti aliasing setting or pixel preview or document raster settings as you did. Then because all else failed I was about to assume it was a screen artifact or bug of some kind.
However, the upon further analysis I found the solution-and it was right under my nose. I had applied an effect to the vector object (an outer glow) and–because I was going to scale it down drastically from the size I had originally drawn it at –I had gone to the object menu and expanded the appearance of the object which caused my outer glow effect to become a rasterized shape underneath my original object.
To remedy this: I simply zoomed in on the pixlelated object, selected it, ungrouped it, selected the top vector object path, nudged it to the right–REVEALING THE RASTERIZED SHAPE BENEATH!
So I would reccomend you try two things:
First select the view menu and choose "Outline" (command or control Y), then look to see if you have any solid "blocks" -this could indicate a rasterizing of some sort has taken place underneath your vector objects. To get back to regular display just choose "overprint from the view menu.
Secondly, you could select the vector object that appears pixelated and then check in the "Appearance Panel" to see if an effect (such as a drop shadow or outer glow) has been applied ,possibly inadvertently. Because just the applying of an effect will cause a "pixelated, jaggy edge" when viewed at high zoom percentages, or indeed any resolution for that matter.
Hope this helps-

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