Preview.app crashes in Leopard -- Data Loss!!!

[Macula]

To the collective wisdom:

I installed Leopard on the release day (now 10.5.1, clean install + migration assistant for apps and accounts).

Unfortunately, Preview.app crashes unpredictably when I open pdf files. There are two instances of the problem:

1. As the file is being loaded, I get a beachball and Preview.app soon "quits unexpectedly".

2. As the file is being saved, Preview.app "quits unexpectedly" and, worse still, it does NOT save my data!

I cannot notice a pattern, neither can I reproduce the problem at will.

Emptying caches, repairing permissions and the usual assortment of Onyx maintenance utilities hasn't helped.

With Acrobat CS3 still incompatible with Leopard, I really do rely on Preview.app for the bulk of my work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[mad jew]

I know you can't replicate it easily, but create a new user account and see if it ever happens there. That might point to where the problem lies.