FLASH: (Mac) Flash Writer & Illustrator 9... (Additional Illustrator 9 instability problems)...please help!

[Dr. James K. Butler]

I just upgraded to Illustrator 9. Prior to the upgrade I made extensive

use of Macromedia's free "FlashWriter" plug-in for Illustrator, for

helping to convert Illustrator files into working Flash document.


Illustrator 9 offers more advanced support of Flash itself so I was

wondering if FlashWriter works with Illustrator 9. I am asking for two

reasons. First, I am experiencing major instability with Illustrator

locking up at launch. I just reinstalled It and it is working fine.  <I

don't know what caused the problem so I will be reinstalling the

"additional" pieces one by one.> Before I reinstall FlashWriter, I want

to make sure that 1) there are no known conflicts with Illustrator 9 and

2) if there are any benefits provided by it, that Illustrator doesn't

natively support yet (i.e. is it needed anymore)?


Second, (primarily directed toward the "Digital Artist" list members)

are there known issues or common installation pitfalls for Illustrator

9. The problem I am experiencing is that it starts to launch, the splash

screen appears and the list of files being installed scroll through,

then the splash screen closes and everything is blank--nothing appears

in the Menu/Title bar, the icons on my desktop are gone, all I have is

my arrow cursor which sometimes locks up and sometimes remains

moble....but nothing happens.


Additional "tweaks" that I did to the application after the first

install and initial launch was:


1. I created an alias of my PhotoShop 5.5 "Plug-ins" folder and added it

to the Illustrator 9 "Plug-ins" folder;

2. I took the Illustrator Extras>Brush Libraries contents and added them

to the I9 Brush Libraries. In doing this, I left them in their

appropriate sub-folders rather than dragging them all out to the root

folder "Brush Libraries."

Is this causing the problem, should all of the libraries be in the root

folder rather than in sub-folders?

3. I took the Illustrator Extras>Pattern & Texture Libraries and dragged

the contents of this folder into the "Other Libraries" folder. Should

they have gone other where?

4. I took the contents of Illustrator Extras>Templates and moved them

into the "Sample Files" folder. Corrections or suggestions?


Other than these things does anyone else have an idea about why

Illustrator should be crashing upon launch...even after a fresh reboot?


Illustrator does have 250MB RAM allocated to it. This is on a 266 Beige

G3 Minitower with 384MB total Ram. Running OS 9.0.4.


--

Dr. James K. Butler

CEO & President, Scuba Web Design


-Web Site Design

-Graphic Design

-3D Design & Animation

-Video Production & Effects

-Macintosh Consultation & Education


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