Photoshop CS3 "not responding"

I can open the program and it will allow me to open a blank file. But, when I try to open anything else (photo, graphics, etc.) the program freezes and I end up having to force quit the program because it shows up as "not responding".
This is my first mac and I've only had it a few months. I am lost. Any help is greatly appreciated.
ETA- yesterday the internet ran very slow, at times it completely froze up. it appears to be better today after i restarted the machine. i don't know if these are related.
Message was edited by: lanierstar

It could be bad TWAIN or WIA drivers, Printer drivers, corrupt fonts, buggy plugins (has happened twice), etc.
The most command hang at launch is due to printer drivers timing out (we're just asking for the default printer name and basic information - we have no idea why some drivers sit and twiddle their thumbs for 20 minutes, but they do).
TWAIN is no longer installed by default in CS4, but could be a problem if you installed the TWAIN plugin.
WIA is active by default, but doesn't cause problems that often.
If you have a lot of fonts, especially a lot of off-brand or freeware fonts - one or two bad ones could cause a serious slowdown (as our font parsing tries to make sense of them).
Corrupt plugins usually crash, but we've seen a few buggy plugins do nasty things at launch (one tried to contact a server for activation - that got fixed PDQ).
That's all I can think of offhand.

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