Repairing or Replacing Damaged User Account

Diagnosed crashing Illustrator CS2 as a User Account issue. Illustrator works fine after creating a new "Test" user account. Booted from OS 10.4 CD and Repaired Permissions, restarted with old User and Illustrator CS2 still crashes.
Best next step??

Go through the items in your home folder and drag some of them to the desktop; after each batch of items, launch Illustrator again and see if it crashes. If it does, move half of the last group back and continue the process until you find the corrupt file. In rare cases of account-specific issues, the problem file may be one which isn't visible in the Finder by default, is outside the account's home folder, or is even part of the NetInfo database.
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