Printing in Illustrator 5 with a file created in Illustrator 4-crash!

I have a brand new system running on Snow Leopard (10.6.2). Most of the files I'm working on were created in Creative Suite 4. So when I go to open a file created in a Illustrator 4 program in my new Illustrator 5 program, it crashes when I go to file>print. I don't think it's the printer even though that's a little older because when I print a pdf from this computer, everything's fine. HELP!

Hope the software update helps. (I miss my Mac). But if it doesn't you may do what I have to do, which is create a page in Illustrator 5, then copy/paste all to that new page, and resave. Prints out fine then - but 60% of my files created in 4 will not print via 5 unless I do this.
... all my printer drivers and the rest are updated...

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