CS3 freezes in Full Screen Mode

CS3 was fine until today when it started working extremely slowly/freezing when using any tool in Full Screen Mode. No problems in the other three screen modes.
Fairly large problem as I prefer Full Screen on Apple 30" display.
Using MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.5.2.
Looking forward to reply.

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