Over time, I forget exactly when, Photoshop and Flash applications crash when attempting to start them. Photoshop CS would yield errors that referenced 'CarbonLib' in the error message. Macromedia Flash 8 simply crashes on startup, no further info.

So I thought perhaps I should try a newer version of Photoshop, so I downloaded the CS3 trial... also crashes.

So then CS4 came out... installed the trial... it actually loads (during the splash screen anyway) but once you get to the 'layout' page, it shows the tools, panels etc but if you hover over any of them you get the magical "beach ball" for eternity. It never actually crashes until your patience runs out and you 'Force Quit' the application.

Just updated from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 same deal...

Tried running the apps on a brand new user account... same deal.

I have the 'Crash Report'... doesn't mean much to me... how do you make a diagnosis from these messages anyway?

Here's a little snippet for you gurus:
OS Version: 10.5.6 (Build 9G55)
Architecture: i386
Report Version: 4

Command: Photoshop
Path: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS4 Version: 11.0 (11.0x20080919 20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch) (11.0) Parent: launchd 146

PID: 283
Event: hang
Time: 6.13s
Steps: 29

Process: Adobe Photoshop CS4 283
Path: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS4

ADDRESS BINARY
00001000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS4
0207f000 /System/Library/Frameworks/TWAIN.framework/Versions/A/TWAIN 0208d000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeLinguistic.framewo rk/Versions/3/AdobeLinguistic
0251b000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeOwl.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeOwl
02790000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeACE.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeACE
028bb000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeMPS.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeMPS
02d14000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeXMP.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeXMP
02d83000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeAGM.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeAGM
0313e000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeCoolType.framework /Versions/A/AdobeCoolType
03455000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeBIB.framework/Vers ions/A/AdobeBIB
03478000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeBIBUtils.framework /Versions/A/AdobeBIBUtils
034a6000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobePDFSettings.framew ork/Versions/A/AdobePDFSettings
034db000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeAXE8SharedExpat.fr amework/Versions/A/AdobeAXE8SharedExpat
03512000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ICUConverter.framework/ Versions/3.6/libicucnv.dylib.36.0
035cc000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ICUData.framework/Versi ons/3.6/libicudata.dylib.36.0
035ea000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/amtlib.framework/Versio ns/A/amtlib
037d7000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/WRServices.framework/Ve rsions/A/WRServices
039e9000 /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Adobe Photoshop CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.fram ework/Versions/A/AdobeCrashReporter
039f3000 /Applications/Adobe Ph

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