Photoshop CS3 & Mac Leapard Problem.. Type Tool question mark

I am having a problem that I cannot figure out. I just bought this software and was able to use it a couple of times before it started doing this.
The problem is when I use the Type Tool and choose a color it will show a question mark (?). When I type you cannot see anything. Its like it can use any color.
The Masked Type Tool works fine, but whenever I use the regular type tool I cannot change the color or even see what i'm typing!

On my old iMac G5, with Leopard and CS3, sometimes the color picker would freeze my whole machine.
When I bumped the RAM up to 2Gb, that went away.
Unfortunately, the G5 processor cooked about two weeks later, but PS ran fine for those two weeks.

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