Constant: Could not complete your request because of a program error

Hi Guys,
Last week I upgraded from CS3 Design Premium to CS4 Design Premium, everything is working perfectly bar Photoshop 11.0.1
I am running OSX 10.5.8 on a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with 5.5GB ram
I am getting the error message "Could not complete your request because of a program error" repeatedly when using PS or even if I just launch it and have it run in the bg it will come up with the error
The error stays there if you click ok it instantly re-appears and does not go away so you basically have to force quit PS
I have tried the apple+option+shift on program launch and it seems to fix it for a few min passibly enough time to open an image do a quick colour levels and save but any more than that it starts the error process again.
I have also tried reinstalling from disk with no luck
I cant thing of anything else to do has anyone else got any ideas?
Cheers,
Dan

dano4127,
I was having the exact same issue. Running Mac OS 10.5.8 on a PowerPC. Started having the issue in CS3 just about the time I was going to upgrade to CS4. I installed CS4 , and it was working great. Then boom! Started getting the perpetual "Could not complete your request... blah blah blah" error.
Through quite a bit of my own digging (and let me tell you I am no geek by any stretch) from Apple and Adobe, I found a suggestion to delete my font cache files - since sometimes they get corrupted and cause all sorts of weird behavior. I did this using a free download called FontNuke (http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/). It collected and deleted all my font cache files.
And so far so good!
When you are done, you may want to validate your fonts through FontBook (if you use it), and get rid of any that are corrupted as well.
Hope this helps!

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