[Samantha Weitzel]

I had a similar problem with Adobe Photoshop CS4, except it was not the wacom tablet that was the problem. The following are true events (haha):

1. I re-installed the Adobe Creative Suite 4 once, and had problems with my firewall and anti-virus software.
2. I disabled the fire wall and anti-virus software, because the adobe installer said that there were errors possibly due to those software programs.
3. I then re-installed the Adobe Suite again, this time a successful install, however, every program was working except for the Adobe Photoshop.
4. Then I removed the wacom tablet software and still the problem persisted.
5. I then realized that every-time it crashed the initializing plug-ins would always be frozen on screen.
6. I remembered that I had recently installed a new plugin from my wacom tablet software package, nik Colour Efex Pro 2.0 IE. Apparently it is not compatable with Photoshop CS4.
7. I removed the nik Colour Efex Pro from the Plug-Ins folder located in the Adobe Photoshop folder, in the program files directory.
8. Yay, it works… after a day of trying to fix it. Blah!!!