Dear Adobe, woe is me and my CS4

I have for a few years been using CS2 then about two months ago purchased CS3. It ran okay.
I was entitled to a free upgrade to CS4 which I have installed but I now have many problems in trying to get CS4 to run properly.
1. Sometimes CS4 will open but the toolbar with FILE, EDIT is missing
2. Mostly when I open CS4 IF I click on 'FILE' everything is greyed out apart from Import, Automate and scripts and CS4 hangs.
3. If I click on FILE to try and open a file that too is greyed out until I click on 'Clear open recent'
4. If I open a image and want to get rid of any blemishes with the spot healing brush I can select the tool, click on a spot and a nice splodge is left on the image but the tool does not clear the blemish until I click on a completely different tool. eg. Text or anything.
5. Using Unsharp mask As I move the 'Radius' Nothing happens for ages.
So I have absolutely no idea why this these things are happening.
My System is Windows Vista
4GB Ram (although CS4 only thinks I have just under 2GB
CPU Intel Dual core 2.2GHZ
Graphics card is a NVIDIA Geforce 7300 GT and last week I downloaded a new driver to 7.15.11.7824
I have played with the cache and memory allocation, to no avail
Please any ideas?
cheers Eric

I did have a Nik Software plugin installed "Silver Efex Pro"
It actually worked okay with CS4 but I uninstalled it anyway.
It did not solve my problems though.
Maybe it is because I uninstalled it from the control panel and not from the Plug in folder?
Nik Software state on their website that their products work with 32 bit CS4 on Vista.
Now after reading a post in the 'Retouching Forum" over at DP review I see that Nik Software have issued updated versions of their plugins.
I have downloaded the latest version and all my CS4 woes have disappeared.
So after Adobe telling me to contact Nvidia and Nvidia telling me that my GE7300 is only suitable for games and not CS4 I don't have to buy a new card after all!
What a struggle, but we got there in the end.
Nothing is easy but I find it annoying that Nik Software state that their plugins will work and they make no mention that new versions are available for download.
Actually maybe it's because I was on a 15 day trial and now that I have purchased a key for Silver Efex Pro they will inform me of future updates?
I hope this helps any other people solve their CS4 woes?
cheers Eric

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