Dreamweaver opens then I get the beach ball.

Hi there,
Dreamweaver CS6 on a Mac, Dual-Core Intel Xeon running Lion, 10.7.5.
I'm an occasional user of Dreamweaver CS6. In the last few days it has been playing up. DW will open the main screen with the welcome window and then show the beach ball.
If you wait long enough (30 minutes or more) the last job will open - but you can't touch it or do anything with it.
The force quit applications window shows DW alternating between responding and NOT responding. But at no point can I access anything with the mouse.
Following in the steps of others on the forum with a similar problem I looked in the console and found the following message:
23/10/2012 09:33:57.577 Dreamweaver: CFURLCreateWithString was passed this invalid URL string: '/System/Library/Frameworks/' (a file system path instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
I have re-installed so many times now that I am certain this is of no benefit.
And I have created a new user account as suggested by Adobe and DW works fine there - then went back to my admin account.
For me the short cut is to boot up with shift-key held down which allows DW to open fully and work fine.
After doing this yesterday DW was fine, but today I open DW and get the beach ball again.
Clearly something is not right but I am at a total loss as to whether its a DW problem or and OSX problem.
Being an intermittent user of DW this is the first time I have had a problem with it.
I would therefore be most greatful if anyone can throw and envelope of light on this saga.
Thanks
Keith
Message was edited by: magicnumbers

Hi Jon,
Thanks for your suggestion, although I haven't tried it I will keep a note of it just in case.
The reason I didn't try it is because not long after getting this issue with DW I noticed that some things weren't displaying with the usual fonts in Safari.
It would seem that somehow I have turned off some crucial fonts in Suitcase Fusion 4.
Having turned all local fonts back on again I have not experience the beach ball with DW.
But if it does happen I'll try your suggestion straight away.
Thanks very much for your time.
Keith

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