Photoshop CS4 doesn't display anything

I recently bought an Nvidia GTX260 graphics card hoping it would boost performance also in Photoshop. After installing the latest driver directly from the Nvidia website, I still have this problem: when I open a project, there is no error but nothing is displayed in the drawing area (so no canvas and no layers). The application works fine if I turn off OpenGL drawing. However I was hoping to use this feature to improve performance.
I tried:
1. Reinstalling the driver. Also I tried switching the openGL drawing option off before reinstalling and then switching it on after installation.
2. Enabling and disabling each advanced option I have to see if a particular one causes the problem.
I also mention I reinstalled windows and all my software and still does not work.
I was using NVidia 7300 graphics card before and experienced no difficulties.
I'm running Windows Vista x64 on a intel q6600 platform with 4GB RAM.
If you know of any solution to this problem please help.

Thanks dec9. I did as you suggested.
This is becoming really weird.
So here is what I did:
I download and install DriverSweeper (latest version). It (surprisingly) erases all the Nvidia dlls and files so when I reboot, I have to reinstall Nvidia drivers for my graphics card. I install them and reboot. I open Photoshop and switch on OpenGL drawing and (although I did not expect it) it worked. I could see the canvas with the drop-shadow effect. I also mention here that when I switched on the OpenGL drawing feature, my graphics card name was not displayed in that rectangle above Advanced Options (usually it says what graphics card Photoshop detected).
So far so good.
I then exit photshop and restart my computer again. I get the same problem. It does not display anything. I tried a couple of times (also enabling and disabling OpenGL) and still nothing.
What is also "funny" is that if I move the layers on the canvas, the changes are reflected in the thumbnail of the layer in the Layers dock. And while I drag the window containing the project, I can see my work on the canvas. It is when I complete the drag operation that the canvas dissapears again.
It's definitely a driver thing.
Thanks for your help.

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What's the serial number of your MB? Needed to determine what BIOS may be on the MB. Exactly which version of the CPU is it? There were several different 965 CPUs and they required different BIOS versions, 1.2, 1.9,2.2 depending on which CPU you actually have.
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