Cropping tool now deletes whole image in Photoshop CS4

Recently the cropping tool has taken to deleting the whole image, no matter what is cropped. I've been attempting to trim the edges, something that was working just fine a few months ago (now operating under Snow Leopard, so wouldn't be awfully surprised if it was an SL glitch). But...suddenly, for no obvious reason, when I select part or most of an image and then hit return to crop, the entire image disappears and I'm left with nothing.
I've scanned through the preferences but can't find anything related that might be set or checked where it shouldn't be. Wondering if this is where we throw out the plist and try again; and also if this is a phenomenon others have encountered.
thanks,
gf

Wade,
Sorry I didn't answer your previous post. No, resetting the crop tool, for whatever reason, didn't wipe that 1pixel measurement in Width (and frankly I still don't know when or how it arrived in the first place, but clearly must have been me at some point). I've used Photoshop for more than a decade and it's the first time I've bunged that up quite so cleverly. Now you mention it, though, it's odd a reset didn't wipe out that measurement. Now at least I'll be watching to see if and how it returns.
-gf

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6. waited, waited and waited.. went about my other work and forgot about it and then after about 5 minutes the crop box appeared. I was able to adjust it too.
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Sounds interesting.
Did he do that in Photoshop itself or Bridge or Lightroom?
Anyway, I suspect one could maybe achieve something like this in Photoshop with some fairly heavy Scripting, but I suspect the Script would have to actually open the images for analysis …

Opening Bridge preview images in Photoshop CS4

When I click on Open to open an image previewed in Bridge, the image opens in Paint. I try to click on Open With and am given a menu of Paint (default), BullGuard (my antivirus)FS resizer and Explorer, with no means of changing those. What can I do to change this so as to open in Photoshop?

Thanks for that Curt. However, the method in the link does not work for me, but I found an answer for myself: for any others with this problem, do the following:
Bridge > preferences > file type associations > jpeg > click on arrowhead > browse > select CS4

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