Droplets not working in CS2?

Hi all, I have a bunch of droplets set up for my CS2 Photoshop and now that I have Windows 7 they just don't work. I drag a file onto the droplet and the PS icon on the Windows toolbar glows a few times but the file doesn't open. Any ideas? Thanks for any thoughts.
Phil

I should add that this happens if I drag an image onto a droplet it does not open. If I drag an image onto the Photoshop icon on the desktop it does. I have ACDSee set up with External Editors to open in PS, use droplets etc and none of those work (all bring about the glowing icon on the task bar) but I also have an ACDSee External Editor set to open files in Corel PhotoPaint and that works fine. Images exported from Lightroom also open fine in PS. So the behavior is not exclusive to ACDSee or the OS.

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Hi all,
I am running CS2 on Windows 7 and I have created a droplet. These droplets do not work. I drag files on to them, PS gains focus and the icon flashes briefly in the task bar but the file does not open. If I right click on the droplet and change compatibility to XP2 and run as administrator then the droplet works but each time I drag a file onto the droplet the screen dims and confirms I want to allow changes to be made. This goes away if I set my UAC setting to minimum but I'd rather not do that.
Has anyone found a way to make droplets work with Photoshop under Windows 7?
Thanks for any help,
Phil

Most certainly not a LR-specific problem. Might be an issue with
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1) Uninstalled CS3 from Add/Remove Programs, including all user preferences and settings. This left me with nothing installed. At the end of the uninstall I let the computer reboot.
2) Ran the DropletFixer.vbs script. When finished, it reported "0 errors found", so I guess it didn't do anything?
3) Ran Registry Mechanic to help clear out unused registry entries. I noticed in the results there were a lot of entries related to Adobe products that it 'cleaned'.
4) Rebooted the computer once more for good luck.
5) Deleted the folder "Program Files\Adobe" and all remaining files and folders within it.
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