Camera Raw in PhotoShop CS4?

Hi,
As I can no longer use Adobe Bridge CS4 due to its attempts to destroy my PC.
How is it possible to access Camera Raw without opening Bridge?
I read in a book on Camera Raw (Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe ) that it was possible but the book did not explain how to do it.
I know that attempting to open a RAW image opens The Camera Raw plug-in, but in Bridge you could also open a JPG in Camera Raw.  My camera takes RAW and JPG.  So when I have JPG images taken by my camera I wanted to open and edit those in Camera Raw, but not if it means having to risk using Adobe Bridge - so I need to know how to do it in PhotoShop CS4.
Can anyone help?

This problem has been driving me nuts, however I came across what I think is the answer.
I have CS4 and Windows Vista and Adobe Raw 5.5. If I have CS4 open and then open Bridge and right click on an thumbnail in Bridge and select 'open in ACR', or 'control+R', then the dreaded 'Camera Raw is not enabled' message appears.
However, if I do not open CS4 but go directly into Bridge, then click on a thumbnail, ACR opens automatically. If I press shift and click on a thumbnail then CS4 opens. Itseems to me that it should be the other way round, 'shift+click' should open ACR and 'click' should open CS4. However this is what happens so I am learning to live with it.
If Adobe staff read this please send an update which will reverse this, therefore correcting it, or perhaps change your instructions round so that they match the reality. In any case let me know.

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