CS4 and 3rd party plugins - icons disappear

I'm having problems with CS4 on Vista 64bit with 3rd party plugins. I'm aware that 64bit issues exist but even on the 32bit CS4 Photoshop's toolbar icons disappear once Nik, OnOne etc are installed. I've left CS2 installed as well on the same system and this works fine.

This could be a problem with for the 3rd party developers of course but obviously CS4 has changed something.

I have Vista 64bit with 8gb RAM. Disabling the GPU functions doesn't help nor does running CS4 in XP compatibility mode. Removing the plug ins is the only way to resolve the problem.

Just wondering if anyone else has hit this problem and even better found a solution to it.

I think I can recall the behavior being confirmed for Nik and they are working on a fix/ update. The situation may be the same for other tools/ vendors, so you'll probably have to live with it for a moment or resort to using older versions of PS...

Mylenium

CJ, I ran into a similar problem with PK Sharpener. When I reinstalled the plugin into CS4 (as opposed to just copy/pasting it from an older version of PS), the problem went away.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the replies - Nik was a new install of the latest DFine demo not a cut and paste. Topaz adjust works fine so it seems it's a real hot and miss affair with this one.

CJ