Encore crashes after editing menus in Photoshop

Question

Running Encore CS3 3.0.1.008 on Vista. When I open a Menu and then choose Edit Menu in Photoshop, everything works great the FIRST time I edit the menu. I can save it, close in Photoshop, and come back to Encore.
If I try to Edit the menu a SECOND time, however, and then close and come back to Encore, Encore will crash.
Happens every time. My only recourse is to restart Encore, which then allows me one more chance to edit my menu.
It wouldn't be so bad if Encore didn't take 5+ minutes to open my project each time! Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

The process for "Edit in Photoshop" seems to be (observation and some reading, but no real hard facts - maybe Joe can correct me, if I'm wrong): Encore creates a TMP file with a link to the Menu, then Opens the TMP file in PS. Work is done and Save then writes over the TMP file, which is brought back into Encore to replace the original Menu file. Even with a bunch of Buttons, these are really quite small, compared to most of the image files that I usually work on. Should not require too much RAM for this operation.
I've only had one problem, which seemed to be specific to a Project that was created to use as a "template" and was always done as a Save_As in Encore with new Assets for each part of the Project. The Save, or Ctrl-s did not seem to get back to Encore after an Edit in Photoshop. This was only about 25% of the time, and only happened to me when I used that "template." Others posted of similar problems, but with new Projects, however I've not seen that. Also, with hundreds of "Edit in PS," that is the only glitch I've ever encountered. I also usually leave PS minimized, after the Save, as I often work on a half-dozen Menus in a session. Also, I often have PPro minimized too, so there is a bunch of Adobe stuff in the background.
I wonder if this is system dependent - memory issue maybe? For me, the "Edit in PS" has always worked perfectly (except as per above), and has done so if I shut down PS after the edit, or leave it open and bring focus back to Encore. I'm using 4GB (3GB switch) with about 8GB Win Virtual Mem on 2 physical disks with XP-Pro/SP-2.
Only other thing that I can think of is that the linking to the TMP and back might be causing the problem, but do not know the mechanics of this linking - XML?
Sorry that this is not much help for your problem.
Hunt