Photoshop CS3 opens but immediately freezes every time- Windows

I'm attempting to use CS3 on a Dell laptop- 64 bit- Windows 7.
When first installed it worked fine, then suddenly it was non-functional.  It will open, but ANY request at all will cause it to freeze.  I have to close it through Task Manager.  I get no error messages, and when I went in to view the event viewer there is nothing there under Applications.
I've changed the default printer to a non-network but haven't done much else as I don't have administrative priviledges on this (work) computer and our IT guy is uninterested in helping me figure out the problem.  We tried uninstalling and reinstalling and that did nothing.
Any help appreciated!

Run Sysinternals System Monitor and watch registry and file access as well as the various DLL hookups. Use filtering set to Photoshop.exe and Error or Failure operation to find the culprit amongst those hundreds of thousands operations. I'm sure your IT guy can help you with that if he's halfway smart...
Mylenium

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