CS4 and Snow Leopard causing menu problems?

I'm a long long time Dreamweaver 8 Windows user. Since Dreamweaver 8 has been crashy on the Mac, I've stuck there for a long time.
I downloaded CS4 trial and upgraded to Snow Leopard at about the same time.
The main problem is that pulldown menus seem to be very buggy. I've got to click them a bunch of times and the computer seems to hang till I've somehow managed to click it. What's up with that? It's ONLY in Dreamweaver. (I don't use other CS4 products so I would know otherwise).
Also every time I go to refresh, or upload or download, it seems that the "Cannot do the operation because DW is communicating with the server already" message comes up. The second try it seems to work fine... What's up with that?
Also, why has Dreamweaver not yet added a pulldown which allows coders to jump quickly to functions? If there's one reserved word that is EVERYWHERE, it's functions. How come every other IDE has this? It's 2009 for goodness sake!!!
I'm probably NOT going to spend the money at this point... My hopes for improvement for DW's core functionality after all these years have not been met.
If you want to see a freaking awesome program that has much of the crucial information figured out beautifully, see scootersoftware's beyondcompare3. PC only, but what an amazing piece of work (the threading is incredible...)
Oh, and code hints and tag completion seems to have disappeared...
James

Suffice it to say, Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6) has issues with many apps & utilities.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500778
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10322624-250.html
"Snow Leopard also automatically installs Java SE 6, meaning programs that require previous versions of Java may not run properly."
I don't use Mac, but I take this to mean that rolling back your Java may improve things. Not sure, but it might be worth a shot (albeit in the dark).
Good luck,
Nancy O.
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1 ??? 0x000000010001276f 0 + 4295042927
2 ??? 0x0000000100012a1c 0 + 4295043612
3 ??? 0x000000010001104d 0 + 4295037005
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rax: 0x0000000000000041 rbx: 0x00007fff5fbffe48 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000000000014
rdi: 0x0000000100014708 rsi: 0x726f77656d617246 rbp: 0x00007fff5fbffd60 rsp: 0x00007fff5fbffd60
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