Reduce File Size Crash

One of our G5 iMacs has a problem with running Reduce FIle Size in Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 and crashes every time. We've tried different compatibility, but each time it starts working on the images within the pdf, boom!
I've tried re-installing Acrobat with the same results. The full CS2 suite is installed, are there any user level prefs I can trash? Any help would be appreciated... thanks!

The G4 Macs at my school had the same problem, until they upgraded to CS3. I think it was probably a bug in Acrobat 7... have you installed all the latest updates? Check the updates section in Adobe downloads, all the updates for CS2 are still available. If that doesn't solve the problem, I would suggest upgrading to Acrobat 8, or CS3 if possible.
Kristalyn

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We aren't Adobe. We're just users like you.
Regardless, this is something that requires Adobe Acrobat and not Adobe Reader. This is the Reader forum.

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But the in that funciton
it is working fine on Acrobat Professional, but the same without any changes (and for the same set of PDF files),
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    else if(iAVersion == 4) iAVersion = kPDFOptAcrobat5;
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