CS3 Photoshop Layers issues? Snow leorard??

Since recently loading new snow leopard  we are having issues in our Photoshops. Mostly noticed in the Layers pallete. Which will not allow us to right click to select and element on a layer. It moves the entire folder of above elements as a group. Some machines will not allow to right click on an element to find that individual layer any longer.
Any knowledege on issues with the compatibility with Photoshop cs3 and snow leopard 10.5?? Any help or solutions?
thanks!!

Sorry, hindsight is 20/20, but I paid $170.00 for the system pgrade and personally I like it -- A LOT -- with the CS3 Photoshop exception. I personally have run into no other "bugs" or issues in my workflow, other than this one. I am hoping someone out there has run into the same issue and come up with a fix, which is why I posted.
Perhaps I am assuming too much here, but I don't believe this to be an "Apple" issue, but rather an "Adobe" issue. Why do all the other modules in CS3 load fine on install? Why does a trial of Photoshop CS4 load with no problem. It doesn't make sense to me that others are running CS3 Photoshop on Snow Leopard and I can't. Something is amiss here.
I have used Adobe products for almost 20 years and have been very loyal to them. I keep my programs as updated as possible and have purchased legal upgrades along the way for everything that I use, which is not pocket change to be sure! But, as of a couple of years ago (actually starting with CS3, which gave me issues on install many years ago in Tiger), I have had nothing but issues and problems. No other programs give me issues, which really sucks since Adobe is such a major part of my workflow.

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