Lightroom cannot find Photoshop as primary external editor

I have loaded photoshop and lightroom on my computer but, in the preferences dialogue window, lightroom says "photoshop not found" under the primary image editing option. I can find photoshop and set it as my alternate external editor but I can find no way to find and set photoshop as my primary. I would like to do that and then set Capture Nx as my alternate. Any suggestions? or do I have to re-install Lightroom?

Have look at this Adobe tech note:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401629
(Try solution 2 first if it is Windows Xp instead of reinstalling Photoshop as suggested by solution 1.)

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