Audition Locks Up

When opening a file on Audition the file opens however I am unable to do anything to it at all. I get the beachball of death whenever opening any .sesx file. It does not matter what size. My IT department has recently installed a new version of Audition on my machine. I cannot wait for my IT department to fix this issue. Any advice? I can create new files and edit them just fine with no freeze. This is very frustrating as I cannot edit any of my previous projects.