Help with PS and HDR Effect Pro from Nik

I altready have a help request into Nik Software, but was hoping someone here could offer some suggestions.
I'm running the Nik Complete software program on Win 7 64Bit, Raid 5 machine. 8800 GTS 512 MB card; 12gb of RAM, i7 quad core, 2.67 GH, PS CS5 and Lightroom 3.2, Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.
I have the most updated drivers for video, wacom tablet. OS is current with updates. PS CS5 is updated, but I am NOT running Lightroom's 3.3 RC.
I updated all software updates for the NIK software collection from their site and still have the same problem even after uninstall and re-install.
When I attempt to run HDR Efect Pro I get the menu window to select my images, click ok and with in seconds I get the message that Adobe Photoshop CS5 has stoopped working and must close...
I've gone to their site and looked into their FAQ/troubleshooting and did all their recommendations, update drivers, look for color profiles with 0 Bytes in the system color spool for both 32 and 64 bit apps and still no luck. This also happens with CS4 and CS3 and if I attempt to use the program form Lightroom and Bridge. Any ideas, work arounds, suggestions? Their automatic reply from my support request says 2-3 days due to the high populaity of their program!!!
Thanks for any and all help.

Outside of suggesting some pretty generic things, I can't offer much help... I don't use Nik products myself
You could try disabling the "Use OpenGL Drawing" setting in Photoshop as a workaround to see if that helps. Perhaps between Photoshop and the plug-in problems are being caused in the OpenGL driver for your particular video card.
Also, given that 3rd party plug-ins and Photoshop could be competing for memory, you could try changing the amount of memory Photoshop is allowed to use in the Edit - Preferences - Performance dialog.
Good luck.
-Noel

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Render 2: Mercury Playback Engine Software Only + "use previews" unchecked
Render 3: Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration + "use previews" checked
Render 4: Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration + "use previews" unchecked
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