Help with PS CS4 for Mac (Lion 10.7.3)

I bought Photoshop CS4 about a year and a half ago and it worked on my old Macbook (10.5.8) absolutely fine. I recently upgraded to a Macbook Pro (Lion 10.7.3) and now Photoshop crashes about every ten minutes for no apparent reason. By "crashes" I mean that the spinning wait cursor appears and I am forced to use force quit as Photoshop is no longer responding.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, turned off automatic graphics switching (I read on a similar discussion that this might help) and nothing seems to work. It's very very frustrating, made more frustrating by the fact that neither Apple or Adobe seem to be able to speak to me in person about this matter. I desperately need Photoshop for my work and any help would be greatly appreciated.

do your crashes generate an Apple and Adobe crash reports?
if so, copy the Adobe report and paste it here
try this for some basic maintance & troubleshooting in the meantime
gballard.net/macrant/osx_troubleshooting.html
especially running all the Adobe updates, clearing font crashes (font issues), disabling all third-party plugins, and testing in a New User account...

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