Lightroom can't find Photoshop CS3 to edit files?

I installed Lightroom, and then the 1.1 update when I had Creative Suite 2 installed on my Sony Vaio laptop.
I've since installed Creative Suite 3, and uninstalled CS2...
Now, when I try to edit a photo from Lightroom, it can't find Adobe Photoshop. The only way I can edit in photoshop from Lightroom is to set Photoshop CS3 as an 'external' editor.
How can I reset Lightroom to recognise that I've got Photoshop CS3 installed?
Cheers,
J.

Hi Wick,
The 'external' editor is called by CTRL-ALT-E.. Lightroom appears to keep CTRL-E purely for Photoshop, and this isn't editable...
However, I have solved the problem.. well, at least found a workaround... I don't know what caused it - perhaps the uninstallation of CS2 AFTER installing CS3?
If you have this problem, you'll need to add the following key to the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\photoshop.exe
create a new string value called "path" that contains the path to your photoshop.exe file.
Then Lightroom will find photoshop and you can edit using CTRL-E again and still keep a secondary editor!

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