CS4 hang after using Nik Sharpener - on Snow Leopard

Hello everyone,
coming from Windows to MAC - to avoid trouble - I see it is not trouble free ... ?? While using the Nik Complete collection filters, all filters work fine with CS4 - except Nik Sharpener. It looks to me that the Filter works OK, one can use it with its user interface and after hitting " Execute" the filters works and needs to give the results to CS4 .... <--- this step does not work. It takes a while and then CS4 does not react anymore and I must kill the process. I tried this with some of my pictures, it is NOT related to the size of t files . The hang comes with small files as well as with big files. I can - sometimes - use it and it works fine, but this is only in rare cases. Theres is no difference wetherI tun other programs like Bridge or Capture One at the same time or not - CS4 hangs come in any case.
Has anyone observed the same issues and knows what the root cause might be? Adobe support sent me a list what I should do. I tried some things, but I'm new on MAC and do not know the OS that good . I'm not able to follow all these steps. The Mac is a Mac Pro with 10 GB RAM. There should not be an issue with the RAM for CS4. The OS is Snow Leopard with the newest patches. Technically the Mac has no hardware issues or any other strange behavior - its is only this point that does not work
THANKS a lot for your help
Kind regards,
Hartmut

Hello Chris,
I have the newest version downloaded incl. all available patches. But I will in addition to this post this question as well to NIK support, because I cannot see where this hang starts to happen - still in t plugin or already in CS4 . Nevertheless, I assume tis should be based on any configuration because CS4 is a mature software and the Sharpener plugin also --- such basic bugs should no more be available - is my assumption. Therefore I thought someone might have had the same issue and knows the solution.
Thanks, kind regards,
Hartmut
Am 22.06.2010 um 08:56 schrieb Chris Cox:
Have you checked with Nik for updated plugins?
Most likely the problem is another bug in the Nik plugins, which only Nik can fix.
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