Editing in CS2

I don't know what's happening. Sometimes I edit in CS2 and it gives me PSDs and sometimes JPGs. I don't want PSDs and when I edit the PSDs I must save them as PSDs or else my results are not included in Lightroom. If I save a JPG what I have to do is click on the + in folders, find my folder, click on import, go through that dialog, get my one picture, then go to all pictures in the folder, then stack the new one with the old. How can I get JPG files to edit in CS2 and not PSD.
In External Editors options I only have the choice of TIFF or PSD yet previously it was happily giving me JPGs in CS2. I didn't knowingly change anything.

My originals are .jpg. Here's what Lightroom does, as far as I can tell:
1) If I ask to edit the original (which I don't, unless I'm not really going to edit) it gives me a .jpg file with a file name with -edit appended.
2) If I ask to edit a copy without any lightroom changes applied, I the same thing. There is an option to stack with the original.
3) If I ask to edit a copy WITH lightroom changes applied, it is a PSD file. Maybe it has to be. There is an option to stack with the original.
All of that works. When I posted the original question I didn't understand when it gave me a .jpg and when a .psd. Now I do.
However, it does mean that, unless you want to go to a great deal of trouble, you must save it with the same name and extension as they gave you or it won't know it has it. It means if you were handed a .jpg (case 1 or 2), you can't save a .psd to save your layers and if you are handed a .psd (3rd case) you can't save it as a .jpg.
What bothers me is I can't save it as whatever I want but am forced to save it at the type they assigned. I don't like that.
This also means that if I decide to make, for example, a collage, how do I do it. Let's say I want to make it out of 4 photos. I ask to edit the 4 photos and in each case I will be assigned a name.
So I have to save my result with one of the names or it won't be in the system. I can then change its name. That seems kind of awkward to say the least, and prone to error, but it's quicker than saving as what you want, clicking on +, waiting for the directory to appear, asking it to import, waiting for it to chew on them all, getting the one you want loaded, going back to the view you had.
Then I have to delete the files I've been given for the other photos that I didn't save back.
Please tell me I'm overlooking something! It's very if you don't want to save with the name and file type assigned and it's not easy to put stuff into the system except in new folders.
It's really two problems. Why can't I save what kind of file I want when I edit -- or NOT save, for that matter -- and how do I easily put a new file into the system.

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