Lightroom 3.2 external editor problem

Hello,
I have been experiencing problems with using external editors in Lightroom 3.2.  Currently there are 3 external editors which display a problem (but all of which work fine as an external editor or stand-alone program).  Those are Alien Skin's new Exposure 3 and Bokeh 2 and also Photoshop CS5.  Whenever I use CS5 as an external editor, it will not open the file itself (this is all Mac OSX by the way), when I use EITHER Alien Skin program I get a weird result where the Path it chooses is a Time Machine backup and it will NOT edit my Lightroom file ...
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated !!  as I said - all of these "plug-ins" work fine in stand alone mode - also Photoshop CS5 works fine OTHER than when it is used as an external editor from Lightroom.

Hi Charlie,
When I "show in finder", the file is shown in the correct path/location on the disk, which would suggest there should be no problem with editing in external editors, however the problem persists with CS5 not loading the actual file, and with Alien Skin plug-ins being unable to find the file (looking in wrong path) - here is a screenshot of "get info" for an image:
Thanks,
Damen

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