Photoshop CS2 doesn't open

I have been running CS2 on a Windows XP platform for years. I can open all of the components except Photoshop. Suddenly Photoshop starts to load and then while its going through the initialization process it shuts down and won't load.
I have tried uninstalling CS2 and then re-installing it, but that didn't help.
Any ideas about what is happening that prevents Photoshop from opening? I also thought it might be my virus scanner and tried disabling it. That didn't help either.
Help!
Thanks,
Gary Aminoff

Pellissier - you need to do some system maintenance, start from scratch and re-install. I would recommend Onyx which will repair permissions as well as cache cleans and other maintenance tasks which may not have been done for a while. Then re-install Photoshop
Free download, and probably should be part of the operating system. lord knows why its not
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html

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