Save for web freezes (Both CS3 and CS4)

Hello all,
A small problem that I've endured with CS3 seems to be happening in CS4 as well, so thought I'd ask about it.
Whenever I try saving for the web, the save for web window often freezes, leaving Photoshop unusable for a few minutes. The beachball cursor will come up over every Photoshop window leaving me to wait a few minutes everytime I use save for web.
It's not disastrous... it rarely crashes in this state, it's just really annoying and slows down my work process considerably.
This happens on images small or large. It's typically worse when I've been working with big images all day and seemingly my RAM resources are slim, but it can also happen from a fresh restart and trying it with a small image.
I've tried trashing my save for web preferences and Photoshop preferences and nothing seems to change...
I've noticed this problem on CS3 since it was released, I was using 10.4 at the time. It also happens on 10.5 and 10.6.
CS4 the same problem occurs on both 10.5 and 10.6. Both using Intel iMacs.
Any suggestions at all?
Many thanks in advance,
Tom

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This has happened before and I had learned to save no matter what to avoid this but just forgot and am once again about to lose HOURS of work because of it...
I have searched and searched and cannot find a separate process to close in device manager to stop just it (which is lame). All I can do is close PS and say good bye to everything I had already done.
Of course I would like a solution to this and a fix but having owned Adobe products for years know this is highly unlikely and to get a fix you must buy the new version (pathetic). So, I will settle for yet another hopeful work around to get around this idiotic BUG.
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Message was edited by: Danbo342

Thanks Noel, and others.
I have listened to people. In fact read my second post. It was seeing the 1st two that couldn't duplicate the error get on the phone to a friend in Germany that was able to duplicate it. I then came back here and shared what my suspicions were of the Matrox unit. The other person able to duplicate the issue has yet to return to the forum for me to further check with (I guess some people sleep).
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