CS4 close to unusable

Hello everyone,
like others, I've already spent hours on the web looking for solutions, yet without success.
PS CS4 has numerous issues on my machine:
1. Canvas doesnt refresh (unless I switch tools)
The frequency varies, but it happens very, very often and can only be resolved via "quit/re-launch". While there are lucky moments, when PS may actually work as expected for an hour or longer, it's not unusual for it to turn fubar every few minutes.
Closing all files and restarting PS is a huge tim-eater when you have to do it multiple times per hour ...not to talk about the annoyances of having your work(flow) interrupted.
3. CPU panic
If PS runs in the background for a (considerably short) while, fans spin at max. rpm and remind me of having to shut down PS CS4 when not using it, as it causes near 90%+ CPU usage on both cores - even without any files left open.
3. Cursor alignment with Cintiq
The cursor sometimes appears to be roughly 30px off - luckily this doesnt happen too often -but again- can only be resolved with a restart.
Overall, I am hugely disappointed with the lack of product quality and stability. Especially #1 and #2 make using PS a real PITA recently.
I'm past the re-install, tried out the commonly recommended preference changes, disabled spaces in leopard.
drivers as well as software updates are all the latest official releases.
System specs:
MacBook Pro 4,1 (Penryn)
Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz
GeForce 8600M GT (256MB)
RAM: 2x 2GB DDR2 667Mhz; HDD: Seagate Momentus 7200.4
Tablet: Wacom Cintiq 21UX
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Photoshop v.11.0.1
Any suggestions would be much appreciated...

just in case someone coes across this thread in the future:
I found a simple cure to the most pressing issues... that is "missing canvas refresh" AND "cpu panic".
Almost to simple to be true: ALT-TAB back and forth one time. So far it always worked.
My guess is the issue lies with Exposé (f'ups some of the OS X functionality as well - e.g. Finder drag & drop in list-view... and again: a quick ALT-TAB fixes this).

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