Camera Raw is blacked out

Terrific. You ask Adobe for help and they dump you into an empty forum. Great customer service guys. Anyway, my problem is I have just installed CS5 onto a new iMac and the operating fields in Camera Raw, when opened from within Bridge, are blacked out. Someone has suggested I have to reinstall my OS, ie. erase two days of installation work, which is hardly helpful. Better off finding an alternative to Adobe. The frustration is this work is my profession. A professional tool shouldn't throw up this sort of glitch with no customer support.

Many thanks for your response. I have fixed the problem by reinstalling my operating system; thankfully being a Mac it didn't require reinstalling all my applications, or losing any data. I am pretty convinced, having run a few tests on other machines in my office that MacKeeper is the culprit and I have made sure it has been deleted off everyone's machines. I would recommend to everyone with MacKeeper to do the same.
bmcollis2

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