CS3 droplets not working

I have recently purchased and installed CS3 Design Standard, and I can't get droplets working within Photoshop CS3. I'm running on WinXP SP2.
As an initial test, I followed the documentation, and created a droplet from an existing action that I knew worked when applied within Photoshop. To keep things simple, I chose destination "none", so in theory the modified image should remain open once it has been processed. The droplet was created without issue, and I got a "Process.exe" in the desired output folder.
When I drag and drop an image onto the droplet, Photoshop gains focus (when it is running), or starts (when it is closed), but then nothing happens!
I have tried a number of different actions, and a number of different source images, and no matter what I have tried, nothing happens once Photoshop has taken focus. I have checked the actions, and there is no "Open" command within them, so from what I've read, in theory, the droplet should open the image, then process it.
All the actions I have tried work fine if I already have an image open, and then apply them, so I know the actions should work.
I get no droplet errors, and no log file created when I specify a log location.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? When I simply double-click on the droplet, Photoshop gains focus, and nothing happens. So I'm thinking somehow the image filename isn't getting passed to the main program?
Cheers,
Ashton

OK, here's what I did. Please note that before installing CS3 for the first time, I uninstalled CS2, so my CS3 install was not simply an 'upgrade', in theory it was a clean install (though it's apparent that the system may not have been completely clean). I never used droplets in CS2, so I can't confirm that they worked previously.
1) Uninstalled CS3 from Add/Remove Programs, including all user preferences and settings. This left me with nothing installed. At the end of the uninstall I let the computer reboot.
2) Ran the DropletFixer.vbs script. When finished, it reported "0 errors found", so I guess it didn't do anything?
3) Ran Registry Mechanic to help clear out unused registry entries. I noticed in the results there were a lot of entries related to Adobe products that it 'cleaned'.
4) Rebooted the computer once more for good luck.
5) Deleted the folder "Program Files\Adobe" and all remaining files and folders within it.
6) Installed CS3 Design Standard from scratch, including all components.
7) Rebooted the computer one final time.
The end result?
Droplets still don't work!
The only things that are different this time around (if my memory serves me correctly):
1) Now, when I have Photoshop already open, and I drop an image file onto the droplet, Photoshop does not even gain focus like it used to. When Photoshop is not open, it opens and gains focus like it did previously, but nothing happens.
2) The default droplet name is now "Untitled.exe" - I'm pretty sure it was "Process.exe" before the re-install.
I now officially give up. I'm not prepared to stuff around any more, especially when it takes more than an hour to do a re-install...
If someone comes up with a potential solution that doesn't involve a re-install I might try that, but for now, I've had enough. Droplets aren't important enough for me to go chasing around for days trying to solve this issue.

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