Camera raw and bridge: no dialogue in cs3

After purchasing the Nikon D300 I had to upgrade from CS2 to CS3 as former versions of photoshop are unable to manage the RAW files (NEF) generated by the new camera.
My problem is that, even having downloaded the 4.3.1 version of Camera Raw and having installed it, there is no dialogue with bridge. I tried to reinstall CS3 as well.
This means:
- I miss the Camera Raw preferences setting (under the edit menu in bridge)
- Always in Bridge I cannot cut and paste (copy and apply) camera raw settings of one photo to others. Neither selecting the edit menu, nor with the mouse's right button.
The point is not that these and similar selections do not work, the point is that they do not even appear in the menus. The help resources, for instance, tell about a Edit > Develop Settings function that is not present in my menu.
What is wrong? Is it possible that there is any kind of conflict with Nikon capture NX?
I'll be grateful to anyone able to help me,
fm

Hi All,
Been reading this thread with interest.
I am on PC with XP, I have been using CS3 for quite a while now and both my D200 and D300 have all been working perfectly. But over the last few months I have noticed that Bridge was (a) very slow to start and (b) would suddenly come up with the "Bridge has encountered a problem and must close" message. Then it got to the stage were Bridge would not open at all and just the "Problem" message would show and then next PS3 then starting displayed the "There has been a cataclysmic Failure" message.
So I have used the original CS3 CD and uninstalled and reinstalled and got both programs working but no Camera Raw. If I click on the NEF file it goes to PS and gets the message wrong file type. All the preferences are set ok.
The other thing that happened was when I downloaded all the updates, Bridge went back to not opening and the "problem" message showing again.
After reading Xoslic message I will try to take out the registry entries and reinstall again and see if that works.
For all of you on Nikon, CS3 was working perfectly for me until just recently, so I know that it does work fine.
Hopefully I will get a soloution and let you know if it works.
Gerry
PS. I also had a problem in that Lightroom 1.4 would not work either, opened ok but "lightroom has encountered a problem" message appeared and it closed down. Other people suggested that the problem lay in "Version Cue"

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