One Illustrator File Will not Open!!

Hello,
I am running Adobe Illustrator CS on my G4 with a Mac OS X 10.4.11 system.
I have been working on a project for a while in illustrator. The file is only 6.2MB. I tried opening it this morning and it shuts down Illustrator. I reopened illustrator and tried opening other illustrator files and they open fine.
What is the problem?? How can I fix this without recreating the document?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Aubrey

I just tried this. It does open in Acrobat, then i saved it as a different name .pdf. Tried to open that in Ai and it shuts it down as well.
Any other suggestions??
Thanks for your help.
Aubrey

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