Photoshop CS3 Extended freezes on startup - Windows 7

Hello,
Recently Photoshop CS3 Extended freezes when I launch it on my Windows 7 (64 bit) computer. The splash screen appears but then it just stops working (usually on initializing Tools). It then asks to exit or search for help.
I have read several things so far. To fix it I tried:
- disabling the TWAIN plugin
- resetting all tools
- deleting the Photoshop preferences file.
- deleting my printer from the control panel (some others said printer drivers could cause it)
But all of these did not help. Please let me know how I could fix this. It is not nice having a deadline and not being able to guarantee Photoshop will work.

Thank you for your replys!
@Mylenium: I have not recently changed the graphics driver, anyway, this post will contain some more detailed information.
Since the system does not hang (it is only PS) I could take a screenshot of it:
And yeah, the message from the event log was very helpful indeed, I should have looked it up earlier ^^;
Photoshop.exe
10.0.1.0
470fd6cb
Wacom_Tablet.dll_unloaded
0.0.0.0
4f4d3c46
c0000005
705854ed
1058
01cd2a13747404a4
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe
Wacom_Tablet.dll
b7cb5b9b-9606-11e1-95e9-001e8c1fad2b
I have been using Photoshop CS3 Extended on this Windows 7 computer for about a year or so. It all went fine, but I got a new Wacom tablet (intuos 5 touch) , and I guess that is the problem.

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