Won't Open Any Documents

Hi all,
I'm pretty new to Illustrator and I'm currently using Illustrator CS6 v16.0.0 x32 on Windows 7. I'm having an issue where it's not letting me open any documents or basically use it... hence the long description:
When I load the program, everything looks okay. But when I go to File --> New (to create a new file, or even use one from a template) the program crashes. I get an error message that says: "Adobe Illustrator has stopped working - A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program." This error has occurred even when opening existing .ai or .pdf files so I can't open anything at the moment.
Originally, v16.0.2 was working and then I installed the v16.0.3 update. I didn't use it for a few days after the update and then I created a new document but it started crashing and not saving. I was able to isolate it to at least changing rectangle colors. For example, I drew a box filled with red and saved the file. Then I drew another box filled with blue on the same artboard and when I went to save the file the program would crash. However, I was able to save when I drew multiple red boxes. But once I put a blue box, it wouldn't work. [I don't recall what the error message was, if there was one, since I now have a different issue where I can't open anything]
I wasn't exactly sure what was causing that so I thought I would uninstall Illustrator and install the v16.0.2 update to it and leave it at that for the moment. So I used the Windows Remove Program and removed Illustrator. I also at some point ran the Adobe Cleanup tool for removing trial versions just to have all my bases covered. I also removed anything else from Adobe that came with Illustrator (like Bridge, Reader, Acrobat, AIR, etc) just in case. Some of those programs probably did not come bundled with Illustrator.
I re-downloaded the files from Adobe (the Akamai Download Manager kept crashing so I had to do the regular download) and then I extracted them and ran it. It initialized the install and everything seemed to install fine, the same way I did it the first time. I put in the serial number, etc and then I was not able to open any documents. I ran the v16.0.2 update and had the same problem.
So then I uninstalled everything again and used the Adobe Download Manager to download the trial version of Illustrator CS6 and was not able to open any documents there either once it was installed. This leads me to believe it may be something specific to my computer or some setting somewhere?
Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi Myelenium,
Thanks for the info about Event Viewer!
It's showing this message:
Faulting application name: Illustrator.exe, version: 16.0.0.682, time stamp: 0x4f6e762b
Faulting module name: AGM.dll, version: 4.26.20.19822, time stamp: 0x4f56925c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0024ed0b
Faulting process id: 0x1a58
Faulting application start time: 0x01cddf8abaeab2fc
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6\Support Files\Contents\Windows\AGM.dll
So I searched the forums for any previous AGM.dll posts and tried resetting the preferences (through Alt+Ctrl+Shift) and deleting the entire Adobe Illustrator CS6 Settings folder. I opened Illustrator again and moved some panels around to save a new AIPrefs folder but I was still unable to open any documents.
Then I tried the next step listed here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4687911#4687911
And removed the Printer that I usually use and it seems like that did the trick! Yay!

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