Adobe CS5 start up issue resolved by deleting startup items - Mac OS X

I'd like to share what happened to me just now.
After uninstalling and installing Adobe CS5 five times and talking with Adobe and Apple support for five hours, Apple customer support suggested +I delete the start up items in my administrator account's login menu.+
Now all CS5 programs launch and work fine. Before, they would only work on guest accounts.
Imagine that!

I'll second that on the tablet driver. Yesterday I upgraded my G5 to Leopard so I could sync it with my new iPhone 4, but it won't boot now because of an outdated Wacom Intuos 2 driver. I've booted from a second hard drive and deleted every file obviously named, but one obscurely-named file is bringing the whole system to its knees (or perhaps it's something else trying to load right after the tablet driver error dialog comes up...). For now, I'm running Leopard on an external drive and will have to rebuild and reinstall everything on the main drive, including a LOT of graphics, music, and development stuff. I've purchased every Mac OS upgrade since System 6, and it's always gone smoothly, so I guess I should just be thankful that things have gone so well until now.

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I've posted, asked a lot and tried lot of things, but the "Startup Items" window under the accounts pane in Sys Prefs. is now 75 and counting!!! and I'm feeling there's nothing I can do about it!!!
I can't delete the startup items wich all of them read "Extensis Suitcase X1" and "Unknown". Obiously I installed Suitcase and told the app to load at startup, but i feels like auto-duplicates each time I start up the Mac!
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Jota, I don't use Suitcase — and thus can't test solutions — so I'll limit my suggestions.
(1) You may find a specific answer by searching the Extensis KnowledgeBase from this Support web-page. Here are results from a search using terms [login items] — including how to uninstall, problems with multiple accounts, their "Top 5 Troubleshooting Steps" for Mac, etc. I've read through enough of the articles to realize that installing and troubleshooting their software can get pretty complex — so I think following their instructions would be wise...
(2) Have you checked in your HD's /Library/StartupItems/ folder?
(3) I'm not clear on whether you're trying to troubleshoot a problem that may relate to Startup/Login Items. If so, please recall that booting into Safe Mode may help to troubleshoot font, font-cache, and startup-items problems.
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