Why is Distiller crashing?

I am using Mac OZ 10.4.10. I've got Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional running and have Adobe Distiller 7.0 installed. However Distiller always crashes on startup. I have tried re-installing it but to no avail. Other people here can use Distiller without problems. Am I doing something wrong or is there something wrong with my machine?
As I have mentioned before on this forum I can always get leaner pdfs using Distiller rather than saving pdfs straight out of Illustrator, even though I use exactly the same settings for producing them. Until I get Distiller fixed properly it means that I have to hop over to another machine to do the distilling. A nuisance for all concerned.
Any ideas anyone?

I think I may have fixed my problem... I am no longer seeing the Distiller stopped working pop up and I am now able to print to PDF
Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
My Fonts and program are all installed on the same drive thus preventing me from gaining access to Distiller to change the settings. Windows would not let me make any changes to the Default Font folder.
This is what I did...
Not knowing which font(s) where causing the problem, I moved all but protected fonts (automatically labelled) from the Window's Font folder and placed them in a temporary folder.
I restarted Distiller DC and great news...the program did not crash and I was able to change the settings to temporarily not include the Windows Fonts .No more pop ups and I can now print to PDF!
What I am going to do..
Through the process of elimination, I will gradually restore the fonts I removed from from the Window's folder to find the culprits(s)
Once I am satisfied that the problem Font(s) are found and no longer included in the Window's Font folder, I will change the settings in Distiller back (permanently) to include the Window's Font folder.
In closing, and because so many others are having the same issues, I really do think it would be prudent for Adobe to make the necessary adjustments to their program(s) to prevent this kind of issue.
Thanks
Kathy

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Process: Distiller [1022]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/Distiller
Identifier: com.adobe.distiller
Version: 8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [76]
Date/Time: 2008-02-20 09:50:33.461 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 11
Thread 11 Crashed:
0 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x010fcf49 os_strcmp + 10
1 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01112942 PSRIPAppendHostSearchDir + 385
2 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01112b01 PSRIPAppendHostSearchDir + 832
3 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01136c09 RgstUnixStoDevFileNameProc + 90
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5 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x010e5476 CreateFileStm + 25
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7 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01147210 FiltersInitProc + 500
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eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x011128b4 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0xffffffd1
edi: 0x16e03248 esi: 0xb05d8440 ebp: 0xb05d8418 esp: 0xb05d8414
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x010fcf49 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
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Permissions were messed-up on ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat
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