Edit In Photoshop & Preferences

I must have done something to mangle my preferences because in my Preferences it shows Edit in Photoshop not found. Under additional external photo editor it shows Photoshop.exe.
Yes, Lightroom goes to Photoshop CS2 when I click it "Edit in Photoshop.exe" under the Photo edit pull down. But under that pull down, the "Edit in Photoshop" is not recognized. My issue is that I cannot get my RAW files directly from Lightroom into Photoshop CS2. It only opens files as PSD.
Can someone tell me what I have done and how I can reverse this. I am running 1.4.1
Thanks
Frank

Adobe has a tech note that describes a fix for it ; it proposes 2 solutions, but I would try Solution 2 first - i.e the one to generate a registry key. The link to the article is:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401629&sliceId=1
Also, this describes the same thing, and has a downloadable .reg file, that you can easily merge into your registry without the need to use regedit (but it is for CS3 and you will need to edit it first)
http://blog.rrdphoto.com/2007/05/how-to-fix-lightrooms-edit-in-photoshop.html

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Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:05:25 -0600
To: Warren Newman <[email protected]>
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