CS4 Won't Quit. Solutions?

At the end of my day, I have the hardest time quitting Illustrator and Photoshop CS4. Typically, these applications will behave as if they are quitting but when I look at the menu bar at the bottom (Mac OS 10.5.8) they appear "on". Force Quitting doesn't seem to have any effect either. After a few minutes, I get a report window to fill out from Adobe which I have done several times. I now resort to shutting the machine off with these programs appearing on — which I don't like to do.
Any solutions? Is this a software problem or an OS problem?
The equipment that I am using: iMac 2GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo | 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
FYI - I have browsed through the forums here and see that others have the same problem, and seeing long strings of discussions and arguments about the "not quitting" issue. Hint: I want a quick and easy to read solution here

Since you are using 10.5.x, try downloading Applejack. Have it fix your disk directory and empty all of your user and system caches. See if that does the trick.

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