Photoshop CS4 serious dragging bug

I'm running Photoshop CS4 in two different MacBook Pro's unibody, both with 10.6.4 installed, both PSD versions are separate copies with different licenses and both are updated to the latest release, 11.0.2.
In both machines I've experienced a serious dragging issue that so far seems to be related to something in Safari, particularly when I drag an image straight from the browser to the photoshop window. The bug consists of immediately any function that includes dragging something across the screen (painting, scaling, panning, cropping, rotating, you name it) becomes impossible to do, and the screen "stutters" all over the place for several seconds until the issue goes away itself. The problem has become super frequent in one of my computers, the newest one which I mostly use with an intuos 4, the other one I use with an intuos 3, as mentioned before both laptops are unibody, but one i got in december 2008 and the other one in february 2010.
The issue has gotten to the point where it is almost impossible to work with that computer, as it is happening sometimes up to 5 or 6 times each minute.
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

From the PS CS4 manual:
Change the Color Picker
Instead of using the Adobe Color Picker, you can choose colors from your computer operating system’s standard Color Picker or from a third party Color Picker.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
2 Choose a Color Picker from the Color Picker menu, and click OK.
For more information, see your operating system documentation.
Note: To return to the Adobe Color Picker, choose it from the Color Picker menu in the General Preferences.

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    Kindly revert to us with the above stated information so that our call back team can contact you within 24-48 working hours.
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    The callback team works from 10 AM to 7 PM PST.
    Regards,
    Sauarbh Jain
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes from Customer
    Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:10:44 AM PDT
    Please provide the below mentioned information so that our call back team can contact you to resolve your issue:-
    1. Your Preferred Day to attend the call
    Mon through Friday
    2. Your Preferred Time to attend the call
    1 PM to 10 PM any time
    3. Your Time Zone
    Eastern USA Time
    4 Your Phone Number
    845-xxx-xxxx
    Notes from Customer
    Friday, July 2, 2010 8:43:30 PM PDT
    July 2 Adobe support called me once again they share my display and I demonstrated the bug for a second time. This time the stated they were recording my demo. After I demonstrated the bug they put me on hold for a while. Upon returning they informed me that there was still no circumvention or fix for this problem. They wanted to know if I was at the latest software level they were still sharing my display so I did a Photoshop Help About Photoshop to show I had the latest update Photoshop version 12.0.1. Told me they were not capable of handling this problem and would have to refer this to senior technical support that they would determine if it was a bug. What a joke Adobe junior technical support can not even recognize a bug when it has been demonstrated to them on two occasions now and also received several case update from me. Adobe you need better support personal.
    Notes to Customer
    Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:39:56 PM PDT
    Hi John ,
    Thank you for getting back to us.
    I would like to apologize for the delay in providing you a faster resolution to your issue and appreciate your patience with us.
    I would like to inform you that your issue has been logged as bug so the workaround is obviously to make sure the clip to layer is not enabled prior to running any of these actions.Also my Product Team and Engineering Team are working on this issue you can use the work around as mentioned above.
    This should resolve your issue. If it does, please let us know, however in case it does not; please revert with any new information that you might want to add which will help us in resolving your issue.
    You can also try referring to our knowledge base and User to User forums by clicking on the following links:
    Knowledgebase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
    U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com
    To know more about Adobe products, please visit our product page:
    www.adobe.com/products
    Your technical support case number for this interaction is: 181636711
    Thanks for contacting Adobe Technical Web Support and we appreciate your time spent.
    Have a nice day.
    PLEASE NOTE: we will be waiting for your reply on this case. In case you are unable to respond we will be sending you a reminder on the 2nd day (From the day of our response to you) and then the case will be auto closed on 7th day assuming your issue is resolved. However, you can reopen your case by visiting our web support portal and we will be happy to assist you further.
    Regards,
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes from Customer
    Sunday, August 8, 2010 9:26:50 PM PDT
    Any work around does not solve my problem. Thousands have downloaded my actions. There is no way that I can contact them to make the aware of any work around. I can code around this bug but again I have no way to get the update to those that have downloaded my actions for they are free. All that is logged is the number of downloads. No registration is required so there is no way to contact the users that downloaded my actions. The problem will only be resolved when adobe updates Photoshop and fixes the problem.
    Notes to Customer
    Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:58:23 PM PDT
    Hi John ,
    Thank you for getting back to us.
    I would like to apologize for the delay in providing you a faster resolution to your issue and appreciate your patience with us.
    I have logged this issue with my Product Team and Engineering Team as Bug #{2679265}. Adobe’s Engineering Team will look into this issue, and if in the future a resolution or fix is possible, it will be available from the Adobe Systems product update web site: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
    I am closing case#{181636711}, if you have any new information, please contact my team within 14 days, with the details, so we may re-open the support incident.
    You can also try referring to our knowledge base and User to User forums by clicking on the following links:
    Knowledgebase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
    U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com
    To know more about Adobe products, please visit our product page:
    www.adobe.com/products
    Your technical support case number for this interaction is: 181636711
    Thanks for contacting Adobe Technical Web Support and we appreciate your time spent.
    Have a nice day.
    Regards,
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes from Customer
    Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:13:56 PM PDT
    This case should not be closed till there is a fix for this bug. How can Adobe Support close a bug report when Adobe acknowledges its a bug where Adobe Support does not provide a fix. Blowing smoke with statements like "if in the future a resolution or fix is possible, it will be available from the Adobe Systems product update web site". Photoshop CS3 work correctly Adobe broke the Action Player in CS4 and its still broken is CS5. "if a fix is possible!"!!! Are you joking? What kind of support is that? Do you get a bonus for closing bug reports without fixing the bug? Does it make you look good inside Adobe. I can tell you from the outside there is a foul stench emulation from Adobe Technical Support.
    Notes to Customer
    Monday, August 16, 2010 2:30:22 PM PDT
    Dear John ,
    Thank you for getting back to us with the required information and we appreciate your patience in helping us to resolve your issue as soon as possible.
    This issue would require support from a senior level and hence I am forwarding your case to the next level of support for extensive research and to find a resolution for the problem at hand. I'll get back to you once we receive a reply from the concerned department.
    Please note that the expected turnaround time for resolution to this case from next level of support is 5 business days. I apologize for any inconvenience caused.
    We are always happy to assist you however, in future if you face any technical problems with Adobe products, you may also try referring to our knowledge base & User to User forums by clicking on the following links:
    KnowledgeBase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
    U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com
    To know more about Adobe products, please visit our product page:
    www.adobe.com/products
    Your technical support case number for this interaction is: 181636711
    Thanks for contacting Adobe Technical Web Support. Have a nice day.
    Regards,
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes to Customer
    Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:25:48 PM PDT
    Dear John ,
    Thank you for getting back to us with the required information and we appreciate your patience in helping us to resolve your issue as soon as possible.
    I would suggest you to please go to through the KB document to move actions from Photoshop CS4 to CS5 given below :
    http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/860/cpsid_86020.html
    Please make sure about the loaction of actions which you created or saved in Photoshop CS4, go to that location and make sure you have all the actions there.
    Did it ever work in Photoshop CS5?
    Try to make a copy of the action that he is trying to run, remove the 'Hide' command and re-record hide in PS CS5, put it into the action, and see if that works.
    Or try making a short action along with Hide command . If this works, then something might have got changed between the version.
    KnowledgeBase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
    U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com
    To know more about Adobe products, please visit our product page:
    www.adobe.com/products
    Your technical support case number for this interaction is: 181636711
    Thanks for contacting Adobe Technical Web Support. Have a nice day.
    Regards,
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes from Customer
    Friday, August 27, 2010 8:15:11 PM PDT
    This is the reply I received from adobe support you. I want this case open till it is resolved. Your trying everything to close it unresolved. Now your giving me instructions on how to migrate from CS4 which I don't have??? Please fix bug #{2679265}.
    ++++++++++From Adobe support+++++++++
    I have logged this issue with my Product Team and Engineering Team as Bug #{2679265}. Adobe’s Engineering Team will look into this issue, and if in the future a resolution or fix is possible, it will be available from the Adobe Systems product update web site: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
    I am closing case#{181636711}, if you have any new information, please contact my team within 14 days, with the details, so we may re-open the support incident.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Notes to Customer
    Monday, August 30, 2010 5:14:11 PM PDT
    Hi John ,
    Thank you for replying back.
    I would like to inform you that that we are working in techinical support department and fixing any issues or Bug with the product is done by the developers team. As they are already working on it and we don't have any update as how much time that gonna take. If you want we can have the case as open and as soon as there is any fix for the same, you will be getting the update on Adobe website.
    I hope this will address your concern.
    You can also try referring to our knowledge base and User to User forums by clicking on the following links:
    Knowledgebase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
    U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com
    To know more about Adobe products, please visit our product page:
    www.adobe.com/products
    Your technical support case number for this interaction is: 181636711
    Thanks for contacting Adobe Technical Web Support and we appreciate your time spent.
    Have a nice day.
    Regards,
    Adobe Technical Support
    Notes from Customer
      Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:51:16 PM PDT
    Yes leave it open
    Notes from Customer
    Monday, September 6, 2010 5:57:14 AM PDT
    Thank You
    Adobe Support Call me and told me it would be fixed in the next release of Photoshop and asked me if they could close the case. I replyed IMO that is not the proper thing to do do what you want...
    ========================================================================================== ========================
    As you can see Adobe marked the case
    Status
    Withdrawn
    by Adobe over my objection.

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