Bridge won't launch from CS3 - intermittent problem

Hi folks<br />I dont think I am alone in experiencing this problem as a quick google threw up other sufferers but the suggested fix  update everything at the Adobe website  has not fixed the problem, so I am hoping that someone here can shed some light.<br /><br />Problem 1; Bridge will sometimes not open from CS3 - ie when I click on the icon , or if Bridge is set up to open automatically when CS3 opens, I sometimes get an error message that reads <br /><br />error 2:Photoshop is undefined. Line: 1  ->photoshop10.invoke bridge (false, false, );<br /><br />When this happens Bridge will still open fine from the start menu, so it is not disastrous but is annoying because the keyboard shortcut <shift ctrl W   > won't work either (to close a file in CS3 and bring the Bridge window up on screen) - a similar error message is received when using Shift Ctrl W as when trying to open bridge.<br /><br />Problem 2; the fly out menus will not remain on screen.  Eg if I have a layer and want to access the blend mode menu - if I click on the menu in the layer palette the menu appears for a second and then disappears.<br /><br />Problem 3: If I try to create a new action as soon as I click on the "new action" in the actions palette the word "scripts" appears multiple times in the action - it just produces line after line of this until I click the button to stop the action.<br /><br />Problem 4 (may be related to problem 2 ?); in the crop tool - I can't get the cursor to remain in the width and height boxes - so I can't control the dimensions of the crop (which is currently stuck at my last size of 3 x 4 cm - not much use to man nor beast).<br /><br />Most frustratingly of all  - these are all intermittent problems.<br /><br />Things I have tried - updating CS3 and bridge from Adobe site, opening CS3 and bridge before any other program, not running any other program at the same time, uninstalling and reinstalling (after disabling all antivirus etc stuff), but so far nothing works.<br /><br />I am using a 1 year old Dell PC, lots of RAM and hard drive available, only working from internal drives, no new  hardware or software loaded (although there might have been a windows update - but this occurred after the problems started and has not noticeably changed things).  Windows XP pro. Recently done whole system scan for viruses etc and no problems found.<br /><br />Please help, this has been going on since I loaded CS3 a few months ago and it is driving me nuts.<br /><br />Thanks<br />Amanda D'Arcy

Amanda - One consistent recommendation that has fixed a lot of problems, especially if program worked before, and does not now, is to reset preferences. This is not the same as uninstalling and reinstalling, as the preference file is not affected with that operation.
Since it is intermittent problem this will probably not help, but worth a shot.
When it does not work is there some process that is running, like a anti-virus scan, or?
What about startup scripts in Bridge? Disable any you do not need.

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