New Illustrator CS3 Install Windows 7 64-bit Problem

I just migrated from XP to a clean install of Win 7 Pro 64-bit.
For some reason, Illustrator loads with no palletes and when I try to create a new document, the following appears:
Now if I run as Administrator, Illustrator loads normally without this error, but every time I start Illustrator, I get a User Account Control warning popup. Is there any way to tell UAC that Illustrator is on some approved program list and to stop bothering me about it?

I'm not seeing anything new added to the Event log security at the time I launch the program and get the UAC popup.
I get the UAC for all programs that have to run with Admin privilages. So far that means Illustrator (or else it won't load it's palletes), QuarkXpress 8.02 and TMPGenc Xpress. All of them malfunction in some way if not run with Admin level tokens.
I wish the UAC would learn which programs are 'safe to run', but it doesn't. I started Illustrator up a dozen times and still get the UAC when I start it. If I don't run it with Admin levels, I get the popup shown at the beginning of this thread.

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