Problem with Fireworks CS3 Startup

Hello all,
My name is Logan May and I work for a company called
Sutherland Design Agency. My problem seems to be persisting with
non administrator users on my new fresh install of leopard. Over
the last few days we have wiped and installed leopard on all of our
machines. A couple of the machines have run into some issues.
Fireworks and other CS3 applications randomly stop working and we
get messages saying they quit unexpectedly. However, they still
work on the administrator users. Why is this? We use CS3 a lot in
our company and after a day or so of use we start getting this
error message. Does it have something to do with a bad adobe
update? leopard?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Logan May
Sutherland Design Agency

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