illustrator 5.5 crashes when scrolling through font list

[Guest]

I'm running on a macbook pro OS 10.7.4 and illustrator 5.5 crashes everytime I open a new document, select the type tool and scroll through the font list from the font menu list. It scrolls about 25% down the list then crashes the software.

[ClothRabbit]

**UPDATE** to the message above, this does work but I'm having to continually do it. I just click & un-click. It's a pain but I need to see the font previews.

[happyd23173693]

I found this link really helpful
[Solved] How to Fix Windows Update Error 80070103

Bascally:

Launch Font Book > Select All > Validate Fonts > Delete anything with a big red 'X'

Then you can turn Font preview back on and it shouldn't crash (so far...)