HP PhotoSmart Studio Software Locks Up or is Painfully Slow!

I tried to resolve this thru HP support, but never got past the level 1 reinstall run around. However, I did come up with a 'fix'.
By using Activity Monitor and Xcode Instruments I was able to determine that the excess cpu and memory was being consumed by a Studio thread responsible for Keyword Albums. I tried to 'turn off' Keyword Albums by deselecting the default albums in Studio Preferences, but this did not work. Finally I disabled Keyword Albums by using the plist editor to change the content of ~/Library/Preferences/com.hp.Photosmart.keywords.plist to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CustomKeywords</key>
<array/>
<key>Language</key>
<string>English</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Studio now functions normally except, of course, for Keyword Albums are disabled.
Message was edited by: xnav

I also am a new Mac user and have purchased a C7280 printer with all the accompanying software. I have experienced exactly the same problem and looking at the Activity Monitor the PhotosmartStudio application is making a large number of Unix calls. I have already uninstalled and re-installed the Software and this has made no difference. The silly part of this whole saga is that I would much prefer to download direct into iPhoto, but I am not sure how to separate the applications and discontinue using Photosmart. I think it might be simpler to purchase another printer!

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