Okay, this was a bit of a hack and I have no idea why I had to do this. For some reason I cannot get the installer to work while logged in under my user name. Instead, I had to log in as root. This isn't very desirable since all of my other SW, email, etc. is in my /home/ directory.
Anyway, once I used the installer under root, everything installed properly. I then had to do a chgrp and a chown on the contents of the Illustrator directory in Program Files. Then I did a cp -a to copy all of this over to the equivalent folder in /home.
From there, I had to take all of the registry info from the root install and copy them into the one in my home directory.
Next, I copied the Illustrator icon to the proper folder and made changes to my local icons.db file. I also had to move the applink in the root/.kde folder. You'll have to edit these links too. They have a hard link to the icon in the root folder and simply won't work there. So, be sure to make all of the changes and to chown and chgrp on all of these files you copy over.
That's pretty much it. It runs just fine and the fonts work well too.
-Mike