Making sure RAM is accessible?

I'm having issues with Photoshop CS5, where it's telling me there is "not enough RAM" available to perform certain tasks such as Liquify, or occasionally when using artistic filters. 
When I go into Photoshop>Preferences>Performance to raise the amount of RAM available to Photoshop, that dialogue box tells me that 100% of that is 2gig.  I'm running an 8gig ram, 27"iMac, with over 700 gig of H/D space available.  I have cratch discs available externally (provided I did that correctly), and am on Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
The guy I spoke to with Adobe was unhelpful & 20 minutes into the conversation continued to ask me if I was using CS5, followed by continuous sets of instructions for Windows.
My question is simply, "Why is Photoshop showing me that '100% of the RAM' is equal to 2gigs, and how to I ensure that all my RAM is available on my iMac?
Thanks fora ny help.
Chawn

Hi Chawn,
are you running CS5 in a 32 bit or 64 bit mode?
Also me was wondering in earlier times why CS4 never was recognising my full RAM available on my computer.
Just yesterday I was reading in CS Help that CS4 can never access more than around 2GB, and CS5 in 32 bit only up to around 3 GB.
Only CS5 running in 64 bit mode is showing you / is able to access the full RAM, depending on the percentage you assign to Photoshop.
Hope I got that all right.
If you have more specific questions about CS5 check the very helpfull Adobe Community site.
Regards

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