Very odd problem with CS2 on Power Mac G4

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I'll skip some of the troubleshooting details, but basically we've tried clean installing the OS on a separate drive and putting CS2 onto the clean install with no optional extras and it makes no difference. We tried swapping hard discs with a machine that was working fine, and the same machine continued to have the same problems while the other machine was fine. We then swapped out RAM, graphic cards, and removed all unnecessary devices and no difference, meaning logically the problem must be with one of the processors or the logic board. We sent the machine off to Apple TWICE and both times it came back with no problems found. Adobe won't help as it must be a hardware problem, and Apple won't help cause they can't find any problems. We offered them money to just exchange the logic board and processors, but they said no.
As a last resort, we tried installing CS1, foolishly assuming that as it was different software it might actually work. It actually worked even less well as Illustrator won't run either.
Does anybody have the faintest idea what the problem might be, and how we could go about fixing it?
Many thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. We'd actually joked that the desk might be cursed, but honestly figured that if there was a low voltage problem then it would show up in other ways. The machine's been in use for over 4 years and this is the first time it's ever shown any issues. Even now it's just those 3 applications, and always at start up.
I'll try moving it to a different desk anyway and see if that helps, failing which we may have to bite the bullet and buy a new one, but we've already splashed out on 18 machines worth of OS X licences, CS2, Office, Font Folio etc. so they're not going to give us the money lightly...

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