OS X 10.6.4 and Photoshop CS5

Earlier after 10.6.4's release some had expressed problems using it with Photoshop CS5. Mainly they appeared to be problems with crashes. I have held off on moving to 10.6.4 because of this. I am a heavy user of Photoshop CS5. I spoke with an Apple rep at tech support about this recently and he advised that I continue to wait before updating to 10.6.4 because of these problems. Although, he didn't seem to know what was being done by either Adobe or Apple regarding this issue, if there is one.
I thought I might ask what the experience of forum members have been using 10.6.4 with Adobe Photoshop CS5? Are you experiencing any crash problems using this combination?

I've been having problems. It seems that it only occurs when I have more than 8 or so files open in Photoshop. I will save a file I've finished on (thankfully that it does save) then the top third of my screen will begin flashing or strobing frantically and is completely unresponsive so that I'm forced to hard restart. This really ***** when I'm working on multiple files at a time and the others aren't saved. I've had to limit the number of files I open and make sure to only work on one file at a time. That said, this isn't the end to my problems with CS5 and 10.6.4. Photoshop will crash in the background when I'm using another program as well as crashing immediately upon opening and there has been nothing I can do about that. This problem is beginning to really frustrate me because I make my living at a photo retoucher and I can't have a computer that craps out on me when I need to get my work done.

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