Preview freezes up when opening a pdf

Preview freezes when I open a pdf. I have to do a force quit to move on. Help

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    Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz 1.25GB   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

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    Open a Finder window. Select your Home folder in the Sidebar on the left. Now open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.
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    What security are you using for disk access?
    What happens if you do turn on full guest access to read and write.. ?
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    Ben Leung wrote:
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  • Illustrator crashes when opening some PDFs

    When opening some PDFs in Illustrator, Illustrator "Quits Unexpectedly"
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    A pdf is supposed to be an end-format, not to be edited. Edits should always be done in the originating application, not in Illustrator. A native AI-file is not the same thing as a pdf. Editing pdfs in Illustrator can be a recipe for disaster and damage of the file-content.
    The following is from Dov Isaacs at Adobe in teh Indesign mailinglist at Lassosoft:
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    purpose PDF (or EPS) editor. It cannot fully and properly edit PDF
    (or EPS) files created any than by "save as" operations from the
    equivalent or later version of Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator only
    "knows" about PDF constructs that it itself generates. Other PDF
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    you "edit" a page of a PDF file in Illustrator, you must have the
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    on the system that creates the PDF.
    We constant hear of problems in prepress due to misuse of Adobe
    Illustrator as a PDF fixup program. You use Illustrator at your own
    risk for this purpose which is absolutely not supported by
    Adobe Systems Incorporated!
    - Dov

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