Editing in Photoshop

I seem to have done something wrong and I'm not sure how to fix this, so any help would be great.
I'm new to both Photoshop and Lightroom and am currently working through the Classroom in a Book titles for both applications. I have Lightroom 3.2 and Photoshop 12.0.1 CS 64 bit, as well as the 32 bit version - 12.0.1.
My question is - when I have an image in Lightroom and want to edit in Photoshop, I right click on the image to access the menu, and the Photoshop path way is grayed out. I can't open the image in Photoshop.
Have I missed something? I have checked my preferences and they lead to Photoshop, yet Lightroom won't allow me to open in Photoshop?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My apologies for that. I was runnning late when I posted that and did not notice it is changed.
I do not know why Adobe thinks installing 3.2 is going to correct this. The problem lies with the Photoshop uninstaller, it removes the app path from the registry, as it should. I am assuming you had an older version of CS installed along with CS5 then removed it.
If you are uncomfortable with editing the registry just reinstall CS5.
Again, sorry for feeding you bogus information.
Rich

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