Powerpc apps crash on Startup on Intel Macbook Pro

As the subject line says, after a undetermined amount of time, my Powerpc apps stop launching, crashing on start up, and I have to reboot the computer to make things good again. Probably have to reboot once a day to fix the problem, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Basically everything from Word and Excel to Maya.
Any thoughts?
j

Jimmyt,
Off the top of my head, the only possibility that makes any sense is that you have a bad RAM module. It is possible that a module would pass any tests you could perform, yet still cause a single error that would bring Rosetta (or anything stored in that memory location) down.
I recommend removing one of the DIMMS you have installed, then testing. If the problem persists, swap the two DIMMS, and test again. If in either test the problem doesn't recur, you have found your bad module.
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Path:            /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/*/Creative Cloud.app/Contents/MacOS/Creative Cloud
Identifier:      com.adobe.acc.AdobeCreativeCloud
Version:         1.7.2.419 (???)
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User ID:         501
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    Submap                 00000000a1911000-00000000a1a00000 [ 956K] r--/rwx SM=PRV process-only VM submap
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0   libsystem_kernel.dylib         0x97151f7a mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib         0x9715116c mach_msg + 68
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x913a0bf9 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 169
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x913a01d1 __CFRunLoopRun + 1393
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7   com.apple.HIToolbox           0x929ba8e2 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 526
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9   com.apple.AppKit               0x972eb349 _DPSNextEvent + 1602
10 com.apple.AppKit               0x972ea870 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
11 com.apple.AppKit               0x972dd15c -[NSApplication run] + 727
12 libcef.dylib                   0x032c9287 0x2ec8000 + 4199047
13 libcef.dylib                   0x032c8d5c 0x2ec8000 + 4197724
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15 libcef.dylib                   0x0331293e 0x2ec8000 + 4499774
16 libcef.dylib                   0x032f9ada 0x2ec8000 + 4397786
17 libcef.dylib                   0x0398675f 0x2ec8000 + 11265887
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20 HEX.dylib                     0x0224b6ad HEXMessageProcessor::processMessage(std::string const&, std::string const&, ProcessMessageOutput&, MessageObject const&) + 77
21 HEX.dylib                     0x02236ef6 processMessage + 230
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