Photoshop CS3 suddenly freezing when Saving

Can someone help me? I've been running photoshop cs3 successfully up until yesterday when after working on layers and cropping etc, i go to SAVE and suddenly it freezes up. I've got 4 RAM, plenty of space on my harddrive. (i use external drives) I did a few small steps yesterday under preferences, and even uninstalled an reinstalled. Still doing same thing. Any advice? thank you.

Try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
(A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.)

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