Organizer in elements 3 freezes program/system

Problem: Program/System freezes up after I select the organizer (or My Catalog, or the photo browser) from the start-up menu. Only a fraction of the organizer page loads onto the monitor before it freezes. To unlock I close the program which doesnt respond until I click END NOW and wait about 10 seconds.
My system:
AMD Athlon 3200+
XP Home sp2
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0
Ram: 1024
Free Disk Space 118.71 GB (160 GB total)
Video Card: Radeon 9600
Virus/Spyware: Spy Sweeper, AVG Free and Ad-Aware
Narrative: I have been using Photoshop Elements 3 since it first became available and have enjoyed it immensely over the years. This problem began overnight and without warning. Fortunately I backed up all my photos on three DVDs a few weeks ago. I have tried everything, I think & am considering re-loading XP and wiping my hard drive clean to solve this but I would much rather find a solution here than go through all that. I have tried the Elements 3.0.1 update and another solution posted for PE5 which instructed to deselect Adobe Active File Monitor on the services tb in msconfig, to no avail.

Bob,
I'm still in a state of disbelief so after finishing my work tonight I couldn't help click on PE3 just to confirm it was still there and working - it was!
Yes, I know the format of the hard drive thing would have worked but it would have caused too much inconvenience and taken so much time. ARGH! And of course as you said, I would have never known why. Well, I guess ignorance is bliss because I sure don't know how a lot of things work on computers so I'm a pretty happy camper just to be able to do as much as I do.
Besides an earlier Microsoft XP update which disallowed me from using the send command from the organizer (to e-mail a photo to someone) and which Microsoft later came out with a fix for, the only on-going glitch I have encountered with PE3 is that after I have edited and saved a photo in the organizer/catalog/photo browser, it used to send me back to that particular photo's location in the organizer. Now after I have completed an edit it sends me back to the most recent photo in the editor, which is only an inconvenience when working with older photos therefore causing me to find my place back in the organizer after each edit before I can resume. BTW, I backed up my organizer again last night just to be on the safe side.
When you say, "Be sure to make a copy when you have everything set up the way you like it" do you mean to copy the PE3 folder from the set-up disk? Sorry, I'm geting brain dead this time of night. Spent most of it downloading XP Service Pack 3.
Jon

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