HOW TO MANUALLY CHOOSE PRIMARY EXTERNAL EDITOR

How can I manually choose the primary external editor? Currently, it's chosen automatically. Is there a Registry fix?
I use XP Professional with Lightroom 1.4.1 and Lightroom 2.0 Beta and 2GB RAM on a 3.2ghz Pentium 4 machine.
Why do I need this? Well, it's not so bad with Lightroom 1, but with Lightroom 2 Beta, if Lightroom picks a program other than Photoshop for its "automatic" choice of a primary external editor, then some options for working with Photoshop are greyed out.
Even with Photoshop selected as a secondary external editor, the choices for Merge to HDR, Stack in Layers, Merge to Panorama, Open as Smart Object are greyed out in the context sensitive menu that pops up when I right-click on an image (e.g. in Library Mode).
Uninstalling the program that Lightroom manually picks only leave an error message for the primary external editor that Photoshop isn't found, even though it's installed. I use CS3 Design Premium with Photoshop CS3 Extended.
What can I do?????

Lightroom always chooses Photoshop as its primary external editor and you are not given a choice in this. It chooses this by looking at value of registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop\10.0\Application Path. If that key does not exist Lightroom will display message that Phostoshop could not be found and the Edit with Photoshop menu item will not be available.
As regards LR 2 beta and photoshop, there are many threads in the LR2 Beta forum on the issue of missing options in Edit with Photoshop. The consensus there is that you need V10.0.1 to get all the options such as HDR, Smart Object etc. This is the link to LR 2 Beta forum:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=678&entercat= y
As I write this, the most recent message discusses this very topic of Photoshop editing options. By the time your read this reply it may have moved way down the list, so here is the link to it:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=678&threadid =1353833&enterthread=y

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