Asteroid6.dll failure to load both PE and CS

I've been using both Photoshop Elements 2 and Photoshop CS for some time. Last night I downloaded a bunch of NEF images from my D-70 and when I started CS I received the error message, "This application has failed to start because Asteroid6.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I tried and it didn't. This problem in with both PE-2 and CS. A search shows Asteroid6.dll to be in the following locations: NkView6, Commonfiles\Nikon\Library, Commonfiles\Nikon\Uploader, NkView6\Nikon Editor, and NkView\Preview Creator.

Neither reinstalling/repairning, or uninstalling the original program and then reinstalling appears to change anything. I have not tried reinstalling PE-2 yet, or Nikon View. "I think" the program has just lost the path, to the common files in the registry, but I'd think a complete reinstallation would fix that. I've seen references to others having this problem, but have not been able to find the actual solutions.

Any suggestions.

That isn't a Photoshop DLL.

It has to belong to a third party plugin or driver.
It probably belongs to the (unnecessary) Nikon plugin that Nikon software installs in the Photoshop plugins folder behind your back.

I was fairly sure it belongs to at least one of Nikon apps as they were the only apps that had that dll (in previous post) I now have CS working even though the warning still shows. It looks like I may have to go into the registry and find the reference to Astroid6 which I think would be in the "one of" the CS registry directories.

I think you are right in Photoshop Elements 1 you had to install NikonView before it'd display the NEFs. That is not necessary with CS and I don't think it is with PE-2. OTOH I did have to download the plugin for RAWs before CS would display NEFs.

BTW, I have my e-mail as text only so there was no link to this in the e-mail.

Thanks,
Roger