I wouldn’t believe it either. The infamous update bug that plagues Illustrator CS3 (read about it here) seems to have been fixed by the latest leopard update. To be honest, I haven’t the foggiest clue as to why or how, but I do know that after I rebooted, the Adobe Updater showed up.

I figured, ‘eh, why not,’ assuming it would just crash when it got to Illustrator. But as I was getting back to working on some photos, I noticed the absence of the crash notice.

I checked, and it worked. I was astonished. 

But wait, that was only updated to 13.0.1. The latest is 13.0.2.

Since I was getting adventurous and hopeful – off I went to try and update again. I waited, hoped, did my sacrifices, etc…. Worked like a charm.

It runs/launches much faster, too. Did this work for anyone else? Does anyone have an explanation?