Help! Cannot change scratch disk for Photoshop CS4

I know this has been addressed on other forums. I've looked though several of them and followed the procedures and I STILL cannot get Photoshop to open.
I click to open Photoshop and I get this:
"Could not open a scratch file because the disk is not available."
I click OK and I get this:
"Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available."
I've reinstalled Photoshop.
I've tried opening it under Admin user.
I've tried trashing the preferences.
I've tried Shift+Option+Command to open Photoshop.
I've tried Option+Command to change the Startup Disk.
NOTHING has worked. I'm at my wit's end. I'm logged in as a network user but even trying to open it locally doesn't work.
Any ideas?
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo
3.06 GHz
967.19 GB available
Thank you in advance.

I had to do an archive and install of my OS then reinstall the Adobe suite.
I then had to run the Licensing Repair Tool (http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html)
Now everything works but Dreamweaver, which is throwing the following error:
"Dreamweaver encountered problems while constructing the menus from the current menus.xml file.
Please delete the current menus.xml file and rename menus.bak to menus.xml"
I tried that. menus.bak is a directory, not a file. Even renaming the directory didn't work.

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