Problems opening Illustrator files = blank page

I've just recently found the wonderful Adobe Illustrator exchange resource, but the files I download open as blank pages??? Can anyone help me understand what's going wrong. I'm using CS3 on G5 Mac...

If the files you're downloading are brushes or patterns or something other than just an image, look at the palette (panel?) of that tool. Swatches, or brushes or styles...
If it's an action, you need to load that via the flyout menu on the actions palette (panel?)

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