How come CS4 Bridge does not offer Photoshop batch operations?

Question

I have had tons of problems with CS4 on my desktop PC but seem to have most of them resolved with a new video card and updated driver except this one.  If it matters I'm running Windows XP service pack 3, 4gb of RAM of which 3.4 is available.  It has an 2.67 GHz Intel Core2Duo cpu.
While in Bridge, under the "tools" menu, there no longer appears an option for batch operations such as I had with CS3.  In CS3 it was the bottom option of all those listed.  The only batch operation offered in CS4 is batch rename.  I want to run Photoshop actions on multiple images selected in Bridge but cannot since this option is not being offered.
I have deleted preferences and rebuilt them several times, and uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop itself so many times that the CD is almost worn out.  I have also upgraded CS4 to the latest upgrade on the Adobe site, 11.0.1.
I've done everything I can find to do but still not fixed.  Anybody out there know the answer?  This has not been a smooth transition and is very frustrating.
Thanks

Answer 1

OK, let's see how good you REALLY are...here's a new one.  Well actually not
a new one, but it went away for so long I thought all the other things I've
done corrected it (CS4 update and video driver update).  It's back with a
vengeance.
The brush tool stops working for no apparent reason.  If I shut down
Photoshop and restart, it works.  As long as I'm working on an image, it
works.  Sometimes it will continue to work for several images.  Other times
it will not work on the very next image opened.  Earlier today it worked
fine for multiple images until I printed some, then stopped.  I thought it
had something to do with printing so I shut down, restarted and worked
without making any prints.  Again worked OK for a while and then stopped.
This is true for all brush type tools...paintbrush, clone, healing, etc.  It
seemed like if I opened files directly from Photoshop instead of via bridge
that I had more success but now this evening it will only allow me to work
on a single image.  If I close an image and open a new one, no brush
function no matter how I open it.   This is just the way it acted up before
but then went dormant as I noted above.
There is no pattern or repeatability to it that can help me home in.  By
that I mean, tomorrow it may indeed work fine for hours and then go wacky
again or it may go wacky on the first image.  I thought it may have been a
RAM or some other cumulative type problem but this is shot down by the fact
that it will at times stop working immediately while other times work for a
long time.
I'm at the point where the only thing I can think of is it must be the
computer.  I installed CS4 on an old clunky laptop and it works fine.  I
installed the 30 day free version on this e-mail computer just as a test and
again it worked fine.  On my super duper photo editing PC, it just won't go.
I didn't realize that I'd have to add the cost of a new computer into the
cost of upgrading to CS4 because the computer is not that old and definitely
not a clunker as noted in my original post.  I'm already out about $200 for
two new video cards and still no luck.
Any ideas?
JR