CS5 32-bit opens with no menu, empty actions window

When I open CS5 32-bit the main window has nothing in it but a white background. There are no menu items or toolbox. The Actions window open completely blank (transparent except for the frame). The application is unresponsive to any mouse commands (trying to grab and move the window doesn't do anything).
Task Manager shows that it's consuming around 12% CPU time and around 73 MB memory.
Last week I was editing some photos when I got an error that an action could not be performed because of a program error. I haven't been able to use the 32-bit version ever since, but the 64-bit version is fine.
I've removed CS5 and reinstalled it. I've also rebooted several times.
I need the 32-bit version so I can use DFine2.
Anyone seen this?

I use the Nik suite, and I removed all of the Nik apps when I removed CS5.
I'll try the Ctrl-Shift-Alt on startup after I finish with this batch of photos I'm working on.
If that doesn't work my next plan is to remove CS5, all the Nik software, then clean my registry and reinstall it all.
Any reason I should remove CS4 also?
Ed

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