Suitcase Fusion 3 for fonts slowing down Illustrator?

I'm working on a PC in windows 7 and using CS5. I have Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3 for font management but someone told me that this may be why my Illustrator in particular is so slow. I frequently have to sit and wait for it to catch up to me while the top title bar says "Not responding".
Can anyone comment on this? I don't want to give up my suitcase font manager - I really like it. Surely these programs can get along??

Sorry that Illustrator is being slow for you. If you think that that Suitcase is causing the problem. I would do two things.
1. Ensure that your version of Suitcase was built to work with your version of Illustrator.
http://www.extensis.com/downloads/compatibility-guides/suitcase-fusion-compatibility-guide /
2. If they are compatible, and you still think that it's Suitcase, please contact Extensis support.
http://www.extensis.com/support
Jim

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I think eww figured it out in another thread:
*+Posted by: eww+*
*+Re: Suitcase Fusion/Classic Font Problems+*
+Are the fonts you're putting into that folder OS 9 fonts or OS X fonts?+
+I haven't used Suitcase in nearly 12 years and have no idea how Suitcase Fusion works with old-style fonts in OS X. If you think SF might have altered your old OS 9 font files in any way, make sure the ones you put in your System Folder/Fonts folder are copies of the original old fonts, not ones that have been touched by Suitcase.+
*+Re: Suitcase Fusion/Classic Font Problems+*
*+Posted: Mar 10, 2008 7:57 AM in response to: eww* +
+Hey, I think that WAS the problem. Thanks for the great idea.+
+The fonts I tried to install at first had been through SF's Font Vault, so I went back to the archives and used the pre-SF versions, and that seems to be working.+

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http://www.extensis.com/support
Jim

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