External Editor Problem Photoshop CS3

I've set up Photoshop CS3 as my external editor. A3 exports successfully to Photoshop. However after editing, saving and closing the image in Photoshop and returning to A3, there is a .psd file with no edit changes. It's as if nothing happened in Photoshop except I have a .psd file that's much larger. I just upgraded from A2 and never had this problem before. I'm working on images I imported while I was running A2. Also in A2, this latest image would be the bottom image in the stack. In A3 it's the top image.
Anybody having this problem? Do you know how to get the Photoshop edited image back into A3 successfully?
Thanks

I've had this happen as well. Forced regenerating previews, updating from master etc. They they all don't work.
It happend the first time I made a PSD (CS4). The second time the thumbnail and preview did show the correct image.
I even tried flattening that first PSD. No difference.
I haven't tried a third PSD yet... Yet another bug to be added to the looooong list of AP3 issues.

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