Photoshop CS3 stops working shortly after startup? Help!

Sometimes it stops working during startup, but for the most part, it starts up and when I go to open a new canvas or open a file it stops working and has to be closed.
It just recently started doing this, and I've tried getting rid of it and reinstalling, and resetting the prefrences, but it keeps happening.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I've got Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit English.

I got it on the web, and I've never updated it because I've never had an issue in all the years I've had it
I did the shift/alt/ctrl tonight, and it didn't make a difference. I don't have any plug-ins for cs3. I'm up-to-date with computer updates as far as I know. I clean out my internet cache all the time, and I'm not sure how to do font validation.

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