Photoshop CS3 install - not responding at startup

Guys,
Just got a new machine at work and I'm trying to reinstall Photoshop CS3 from disc. Everything looks like it installs smoothly, but when I try to launch PS, it just hangs with a grey background and finallly says "not responding". I've tried to hold down ctrl-alt-shift to get the preferences menu, but nothing ever pops up. I also looked in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings but there are no files located in this dir.
I am admin on my machine so everything should've installed correctly. It ran perfectly on my old machine which I installed from the same disc as I'm using now.
Any ideas?
TIA!

Two additional ideas:
1. Visit the web site of the maker of the video card in the system and get their latest display driver. EXCEPTION: If it's an ATI GPU, get their Catalyst 11.7 release, not 12.1, which has been shown to be buggy with Photoshop CS5+.
2. Force a Photoshop preferences reset by pressing and holding Control - Shift - Alt immediately after cold-starting Photoshop. If you're fast enough, and you have to get them down very quickly, it will prompt you to confirm deletion of the current preferences set, which will lead to a full return to defaults.
If you don't see an immediate "Delete preferences, are you sure?" type dialog, close it all and try again. You have to be really quick.
-Noel

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