Photoshop CS3 Flakiness

I've been away from this blog for ages, mostly due to tons of stuff to do at home (like reroofing the house and gutting the bathroom), partially due to tons of stuff to do for work (using lots of home-time to do work-time stuff), and slightly to do with laziness. I've been meaning to write, I just haven't gotten around to it.

What prompted me to write today was Photoshop CS3 going all wonky on me. I just finished creating an image - the windows I had open were the image I created, a source file image (it was a large one, print-quality, about 250MB), and one other small file. As I was saving the image I created, Photoshop crashed. Pisser, too - I spent about an hour or so making it.

No biggie, though - I reopened Photoshop and did a File>Open to re-open my source image. Photoshop crashed again. After checking things out, I could no longer open any files in Photoshop. Well, that is a bit inconvenient, isn't it? So I went through the regular routine I usually do when things on my dear little mac are going wonky:

Force Quit Photoshop, and go to repair permissions - permissions repaired, Photoshop still won't open file.
Deleted com.adobe.photoshop.plist from User>Library>Preferences folder - still no opening files.
Restarted computer - still no files.
Logged into another user account - my admin account and opened Photoshop - Updater came up and I decided to run it. 10 minutes (!) later the updates were downloaded and 5 minutes after that they were installed. I opened a file and it worked fine.
Switched back to my regular account and it seems to be working ok.

I can't remember what versions of stuff were updated, but hopefully this will solve the problem (as in, it's working now, but for how long?). When I googled the problem, I found several other people running into the same thing, but most were running Windows and it had something to do with a default printer setting. I was hoping I wouldn't have to remove my default printer to overcome the problem, especially since it's been working fine for the last 6 months I've had that printer, so I'm glad it seems to be ok. I haven't gathered the courage to try and open my 250MB source file yet (usually takes a while to open when operating normally) - I wouldn't want to wake Dave up with my swearing if it doesn't work again. Maybe tomorrow.

So I thought I'd make a quick post just in case anyone else is having the same problem. I know it saves a lot of headaches when searching for an answer to a problem if you can actually find a little help.

Well, it's off to bed for now - I think the cron jobs are starting to run on my mac right now because the HD is making a bit of noise. Hopefully it's not Photoshop self-destructing.