CS5 crashes for certain PSd files

Question

Hi All,
We are running CS5 packages at my office, my machine runs design premium. Windows 7 professional 64 bit here, about a week ago i had to access a psd for a design and it crashed, i duplicated it on another machine and i was then able to open it on mine. The next day, crashed again opening either of the files, so i searched the web for some answers. i updated my video drivers and photoshop to the latest update which is 12.0.3 i believe. no dice, then i monitored event viewer for the crash and found the bib.dll file was faulty in the crash, did some research on that and found some print issues, sometimes i print to adobe pdf, and because it was not physically printing, there were errors with the "printer" in the device panel, cleared the print que and ps worked again with the files. fast forward to today, all those same design files are crashing again when i try to open them. i have cleared my preferences and removed every font on my system that was installed past the windows install. had another user install the same font for this design file and open, and it works fine for them, here are my crash reports from event viewer
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 12.0.3.0, time stamp: 0x4d035d7d
Faulting module name: BIB.dll, version: 1.2.2.7602, time stamp: 0x4b97fd7a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000000158b3
Faulting process id: 0x1798
Faulting application start time: 0x01cbf52ff95df82c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\BIB.dll
Report Id: 48595e56-6123-11e0-bea2-00256401846d
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 12.0.3.0, time stamp: 0x4d0359bf
Faulting module name: CoolType.dll, version: 5.7.83.10783, time stamp: 0x4cab0b17
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00072a06
Faulting process id: 0x1160
Faulting application start time: 0x01cbf52d38342b68
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe Photoshop CS5\CoolType.dll
Report Id: 899fd766-6120-11e0-bea2-00256401846d
i would appreciate any assistance in the matter, as time is of the essence in this situation. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Another possibility is that you've acquired a bad font, that's crashing the font handling subsystems.
Finding this can be a matter of going through the fonts in the Windows\Fonts folder and systematically removing them until Photoshop works again.  Sometimes you can just activate the Type tool and expand the Font list, looking for an abrupt end to the list or faulty appearance of a font.
I imagine Adobe would be very interested to hear what specific font can crash their software like this when you find it.
-Noel