BUG: Help (F1) dialog constantly pops up in dialogs

Every time I go to use Photoshop CS3 Extended (and I've heard this problem also exists in CS4), the Help (F1) dialog inevitably pops up repeatedly over and over again. I searched Google and came up with "out of memory" as the "cause" - I checked Task Manager and, out of 4GB RAM, only 800MB in use. Actually, I also have Visual Studio 2008 installed and about half the time, the VS debugger wanted to hook into CS3 - in other words, Photoshop is crashing but instead of completely bailing, it fires up the Help dialog. Only by rapidly clicking the close button on the help dialog and then immediately pressing ESC do I manage to get out of this infinite loop. The main dialog that I've encountered this problem within is the styles dialog for a layer. Seriously annoying BUG because it happens every single time. And don't try to tell me it isn't. I know crappy programming when I see it and this is crappy programming. Especially since I paid $$$ for this product.
I have all the latest updates installed according to the software. Running this on Windows XP SP3, fully patched, all drivers updated. I seem to recall this product supposedly recently started using the GPU for rendering layers and I also know that the latest Adobe Premiere Elements has issues with NVidia + Asus or something like that (I have an ATI Radeon HD 4870 card on a Gigabyte board - custom-built machine, no overclocking). This is also a relatively new XP install and CS3 Extended has only been used a few dozen times. I'm pretty sure I ran into the issue on my first use even. So wiping the preferences isn't going to do a single bit of good (that seems to be the recommended course of action around here). I also had the same issue on my older computer (same software) but I chalked it up to it just being a six year old installation of Windows XP.

John Joslin wrote:
igeterrors wrote:
I have all the latest updates installed according to the software.
What version number is reported in Help >About... ?
I'm pretty sure I ran into the issue on my first use even. So wiping the preferences isn't going to do a single bit of good (that seems to be the recommended course of action around here).
Not true – the preference files can be corrupted at any time; even before the program is used.
And a re-install will not affect these files, which are generated independently in another location.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended 10.0.1. Using the "Help -> Updates..." feature says there are no updates. Checking the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Windows
Also confirms I have the latest CS3 build.
For your second response: Then that is a bug too. There is this little thing called a "Checksum" that has been around since, well, forever. If the product is so shoddily written that it can blow up its own config at install, then, at the very least, automatically detect the broken config and repair or replace it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum

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