Please Help! Can't open illustrator cs2 - tried all I know!

I'm running ill cs2 on my mac with leopard and for 2 days it won't start up-- I get the "...unexpectedly quit ..." message. I have checked for corrupt fonts and have trashed the prefs folder as described in other posts. It does open if I try with another user acct on the mac but then I have only a handful of fonts and it doesn't solve the problem. I am downloading the free cs4 trial now (taking forever) because I have an urgent project-- is this wise? should I uninstall cs2? Thanks for your time!

Hi Ovvio
Here's a list of places Illustrator puts preferences:
/Users/[User]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings
/Users/[User]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Save For Web AI 12.0 Prefs
/Users/[User]/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.illustrator.plist
try the plist file first, You can trash it and it will regenerate itself. The others need a bit more care when trashing. I recommend making a copy of what's there first, move the copy someplace safe and then trash the originals. If it doesn't help, replace with the copies so you don't run the risk of losing some settings.
Note, this is for CS3 but aside from the version differences, the paths should be the same.

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