Open the symbols file directly in AI and past in your symbols (I think CS2 works the same way).

Open the symbol library you want to add to, load all its symbols into the Symbols Panel along with the new symbol, then save symbols library with the same name, to replace the file.

Just one of many cases of "Wouldn't it be nice if…/Wouldn't it make sense if…".

I am trying to do this with CS6 and it saves in the File I created the Symbols LIbrary in, but when I try to open the Symbols LIbrary in a different document it stays the same as it was when I first created it. The only way I have found to add to an existing library is to add to it, then Save As a different name. I am wondering if there is a way to just Save with the original name when I add additional Symbols?

Chelsea

I find this doesnt work if I drag a new shape into a symbols palette that I had already created and opened via the pop up at the bottom of the symbols Panel "user defined".

I have to first open that pre existing symbols palette via "user define", drag those symbols into the main symbols panel, then drag the shape I want to add to those symbols, into the main symbols panel also, select them all, and from the pop up, select "save symbols...", and choose the previously named palette you want to replace and update.

I`d rather just drag the shape into a symols palette I created previously once I open it via "user defined"... quicker, is this available in CS6?

By the same token I cannot delete a symbol from a "user defined' symbols palette that I created. Even if I drag all the symbols in that palette to the main symbols panel, then delete selected symbols from there, and then save out all those symbols again as a group with the same name, if I then re open that symbols palette via "user defined", the symbols I deleted are still there !.

any differences in CS6 on this?