Bridge CS4. Tools not revealing whole menu

I have installed and reinstalled CS4 bridge/photoshop several times but not all of the Tools menu options are showing up. As it stands, only these appear:
Batch Rename
Create Metadata Template
Edit Metadata Template
Append Metadata
Replace Metadata
Cache
As I understand there should be more batch operations including the Photoshop operations?
Thanks.

At the end of that row you mentioned should show Photoshop with a little
triangle. Pressing on this will provide a submenu with batch / HDR
Photomerge etc.
If you don't have that first check Bridge preferences and see if under the
chapter startup scripts a checkmark is showing in front of Photoshop. If not
press on it and restart Bridge and you should be OK
If it is there or there is no Photoshop at all first try to restart Bridge
with holding down option Key and choose refresh prefs. If still no luck you
have either installed in the wrong place or a bad install. But you should
provide more details about system and place you have installed
As I understand there should be more batch operations including the Photoshop
operations?

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