Need help w/ CS4 Mac Dreamweaver (not responding) on start-up

Just tried deleting every Adobe piece of software on my hardrive, then, doing a total re-install for the third time in last 2 days -- and all my programs work except Dreamweaver.
It just hangs and the force quit option says (not responding). I've looked at many ideas from these support groups but nothing is working. What I'm interested in, is why just Dreamweaver is crashed, and nothing else (seems odd) why would that be? I'm using a Mac Mini with OSX 10.5.8, plenty of memory space open. This latest crash happened yesterday and I hadn't used the program for about 1 month, but it was working then. To add to my misery and my increasing lack of faith in Adobe (its products and support process) this same thing happened just 3 months ago, and I had to wipe out my harddrive and reload software for days.
I'd like to understand the reason for this instability. As I have told tech support, there is no reason I would buy future products if the products don't work, and if they are not supported -- other than some random tip on this forum that may take months to come about. There is the possibility I can pay $40 to wait on the phone all day and have someone walk me through the entire process from start to finish, which would take hours and hours so, If someone has ideas, great --
If the soultion is to upgrade, I'll buy GIMP.
I need someone to also not give me ideas for PC's and Windows .... is there anyone home today?

Tuff day at the salt mine re-loading a few times and getting rid of many old Adobe files. It's funny, that after using the Adobe un-install process and the Clan Tool, I had still had over 8000+ Adobe-associated embedded files and logs to remove --- and that still didn't matter, because even with my best effort to reinstall, Dreamweaver was still not responding ... so like many frustrated thread users, I tried the idea you suggested about creating a new account.
Before doing that, I looked over some other Adobe and Apple threads on this subject and sharing seems to be potentailly related to this bug-issue. After creating a new account, I then logging out of my admin account and logged into the new account, I was finally able to see Dreamweaver fire up -- why I don't know. It wasn't that I didn't trust you or not believe you on that suggestion, it just seemed odd that of the entire CS4 suite, only Dreamweaver would need an enire new account created for it to be able to run. This is like having Microsoft Office and needed to create new accounts for Word, and new accounts for Excel .. doesn't make sense!
Furthermore, after having DW fire up in the new account, I felt these odd twitches, and thought about how fun this will be to jump back and fourth between 2 accounts to locate assets and modify content and end up using a thumbdrive to grab the data off my other account, then shuttle it around in the new place, after logging out, then back in and so on and so on -- this is like adding new rooms to my house, so I'm trying to get excited about this new way of using Dreamweaver. I'm currently not ready to start a project and wondering if I should go back to where I was three months ago and wipe everything out again, then maybe have a beer? The good news seems to be that if I get back to this point, everything willl be good (snark).
Thanks for your suggestion and time, I at least have the ability to modify a project (I think)! It was also good to see that I'm not alone out there and that CS5 is not worth buying.... as tons of people are having lots of buggy issues like this, hence why bother upgrading ... (sorry if that started to appear to be an Adobe rant). I guess Apple's latest OS is also having problems, so what say, let's just stop pushing garbage out the door before it works -- I realize the shareholders are important in this age of High Frequency Day Trading, but maybe the customers need real products that have value, versus the illusion of upgrades that crash and upgrades that rely on customer feedback to get things right ... pathetic!

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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:15:55 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need help with CS4 transitions
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