Lightroom 1.2 has lost Photoshop CS3 as external editor

In Lightroom 1 I used Photoshop CS2 as external editor and lightroom has found it with the first choice of external editors.
In Lightroom 1.1 I used Photoshop CS3 as external editor and lightroom has also found CS3 in the first choice of external editors. CS2 was deinstalled.
Now I have Lightroom 1.2 and this version doesn't automatically find cs3. I have only installed lightroom 1.2 and have nothing done with the installation of cs3.
How can I solve the problem, because I want to have two external editors?
Achim Guhr
Germany

Try the following link. The upgrade to 1.2 lost track of CS3 for me too. I fixed it by editing the registry as outlined in the article.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401629&sliceId=1

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Can't help you with the specific problem, but I would suggest
that you
don't use JPEG for a number of reasons. 1) FreeHand doesn't
always play
nice with JPEGs, when there are "weird" unexplained things
happening
with FreeHand files I can almost always track it down to a
JPEG. 2) If
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because
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including a
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shrubaroo wrote:
> I am using freehand mx 11.0.2 and have photosop cs3. I
am trying to send a
> picture in freehand to photoshop. I go to edit ->
preferences -> object and
> then i want to send the file as a JPEG but when i click
on the button to select
> the external editor photoshop is not in the list. The
only way i can get it to
> appear is if i change the file format from JPEG to psd.
>
> Is there a way i can get photoshop to appear in the list
when the file format
> is set to JPEG?
>

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