FW CS3 Color Picker: Locking Up Computer!

I am using FW CS3 on two different VISTA computers: 1 Quad
AMD 2.5Ghz w/6Gb RAM and the other a Dual 1.6Ghz with 2Gb RAM, also
AMD. All updates for Windows and Adobe have been applied.
Periodically when using the color picker within the
Properties section, the computer will completely lock up. It
happens on both computers and I do not recall it ever happening on
previous versions of FW.
Has anyone else experienced this or am I going crazy? If you
have had this happen, is there a workaround?
Thanks in advance for any info!

Hello,
The exact same thing happens to me with Fireworks CS3 and
Visa operating system - everything is updated.
This same question was asked and responded to here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=14&catid=193&threadid =1318666&highlight_key=y&keyword1=lock
I followed the suggestion, (deleting the Preferences file),
but it did not solve the problem.
I will continue to watch for replies to your topic. So... you
are not going crazy alone.
Tom

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