Problem with 3rd party plug-ins - program sluggish

Mac 10.8.8.5, Photoshop CC
I have created a plug-in panel in Configurator 4 to be used in Photoshop CC. When the plug-in is loaded as a panel Photoshop starts acting sluggish and the shortcuts for Tools do not stick, they revert back to the originally selected tool. Switching between layers has a 1 second or more delay time.
When I restart Photoshop and keep my panel collapsed everything works as it should. As soon as I expand the panel, the above behavior returns. I have to restart Photoshop with the panel collapsed to have Photoshop work normally again.
When I restart the computer in Root mode and open Photoshop and expand the panels everything works normally. So it seems like something is being loaded in my User mode that is creating the problem. I just do not have a clue as to what that could be.
Any Ideas - Sam

Did you update or change ANYTHING on your system? I've learnt that once I have a stable system, DONT upgrade unless you HAVE to, as updated plugins are designed to work on the most recent software, and sometimes dont get tested and/or work with "older" systems.
However, if you have not changed anything and are getting these problems, the most likely cause is either song corruption (though you said this is happening on multiple songs, so I doubt thats the problem) or preference corruption, which happened to me just a few months ago. Dont ask me how things get corrupted, but when they do you start to experience random weirdness. For example, recently all my songs stared giving me "memory errors" on stuff that use to playback fine. Once I rebuilt my preferences, every was stable again.
Here is a link to troubleshooting tips created by Bee Jay (a wise poster here). Follow them and they should fix your problems:
http://logicquicktips.blogspot.com/2006/10/troubleshooting-logic.html
Note: if you created any custom key commands for logic, do not trash your old preferences, as you can import your key commands from this file. Check your manual under import key commands. Here is a link to the PDF of the manual, which is easier to search:http://www.apple.com/support/logic/
If you want to turn off your plugins just to see if they are at fault (though it sounds to me like song/prefs corruption, not plugin problems) use the AU
manager. I'm not in front of Logic right now, but I believe its under either the apple pulldown menu, or the file menu, or one of the other menus "up top."
(sorry for my bad description). If you still cant find it, let me know and I'll look it up, but as I said, this sound like a corruption issue and not an issue with your plugins.
Best of luck!

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