Odd Lightroom Occurrence

I have been using Lightroom 1.3 for some time now. I have it set up so that I can edit a photo in PS CS3 and save it and return to Lightroom with the PS edits in place. I did several of these types of edits in the past few days. My computer has not been turned off in the meantime.
Yesterday, I went into Lightroom to do the same thing. This time, the only thing available to me was to Edit in Photoshop Elements (which has been installed on my computer for some time). In order to edit in PS, I had to add it as an additional external editor and choose it that way. I did my edits, saved it and returned to Lightroom only to find that my edits did not appear!
My computer had not been turned off in between the days of successful edits and this unsuccessful one and no new updates, etc. had been installed.
How do I get this back to the way things were before? I don't want to uninstall/reinstall PE and PS to get this to work.
Any ideas? Has this happened to anybody else or just me??

Why don't you update to 1.4.1, delete the Prefs file (see FAQ) and relaunch. I don't use Elements, so no experience there. But deleting and resetting Prefs may restore PS as auto choice of editors.

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Sorry for the long post. Any comments are greatly appreciated.

dkg62 wrote:
I realize the whole chain must be 10 bit
Not trying to talk you out of setting up a 10 bit pipeline, but it's still not very mature, and it really isn't a necessity to get a good editing experience.
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