CS3 Upgrade & Camera Raw 4.5 = MAJOR HEADACHE!

I bought a D300. Then found out that the only way to use Photoshop with it was to upgrade the Camera Raw plug-in to 4.5, which could ONLY be used with CS3. So NOW I have THOUSANDS of dollars in camera gear and software that has caused me more headaches than putting 4 kids through high school.
P4, 4 GB RAM a gazzilion bytes of hard drive space and I'm getting the dreaded blue screen of death after going through 3 or 4 photos in CS3's Bridge.
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT or something like that. I've emailed support and nothing. Very disappointing to say the least.
I've got it down to faulting after going through about 10 pics now but NOW, on SOME of the Nikon (.NEF) files, it's telling me that "Photoshop CS2 cannot be found!"
I'm sorry, but I'm very close to dousing this thing with lighter fluid and sending the ashes back to Adobe. I have over 1000 photos to process from the weekend it's it's IMPOSSIBLE to do it with these errors.
YES, I did the Camera Raw update per the instructions.

Elginet - your error message points to RAM problems. Perhaps your PS uses more RAM than other software and therefore the error only shows up when using PS. You could try to remove part of the memory just to locate the problem if it is within one or two memory banks. With 2 GByte the computer should run PS even though a bit slow. Once you located the problem you could either replace the defective memory or replace the whole set depending on your configuration.
It is not necessarily a hardware fault it could be a setting for memory access in the BIOS.
Basically CS3 and ACR4.5 work fine on many computers and it is very stable on my machine under Win XP-pro. Be certain it is not a general problem.
Best of luck that you can resolve your problem.
Cheers
Walter

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very frustrating; I have been unable to upgrade Camera Raw despite several attempts.
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Okay, now your in the right library.Use the plugin from this page to replace the existing one in your screenshot.
(don't forget to remove the plugin folder and plugin you created in your user library)http://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/acr-84-bridge-cs6-metadata.htmlThen you'll probably need to purge the Bridge CS6 cache.http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-6306475-630487/450-209/Untitle d-1.png
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i don't understand "navigate to the root of the local disk" but i have found "library/application/support/adobe but can't see "plug-ins"
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This image shows ACR 4.x installed for CS3:
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