Stupid updater has messed up my Illustrator! Help??

I'm on the Illustrator discussion board with this too, and still no help. Seems a few of us are experiencing difficulties with the Pathfinder feature in Illustrator after using the BAD updater everyone seems to hate so much.
What can I do? I've tried the prefs, permissions, create new user etc and it just doesn't help.
Of course, considering some of the things that seem to have happened to others, maybe I'm not so bad off. At least I still can use the &%$@ machine.
Is there any way to revert to "before updater"?!
thanks everyoe

Thanks for answering...I was just in the worst mood as you might imagine. There are a couple of us over in the Illustrator forums who are rather cheesed off about this.
I guess it was my bad about the updater, but after years and years of being spoon-fed everything by the IT dept at my old work (they'd DIE if we ever tried to do anything ourselves) I just got lazy.
One last question b/c you seem to know what you're talkin' bout, Willis is the "archive and install" anything like in Windows where you can just step back to your old OS version? Or will I have to back every dang thing up and reinstall it all?
Any help doing your fix suggestion would be GREAT. Thanks again

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