Photoshop CS4 Extended crashes in Windows XP whenever I save

I hope someone can help me, a beginning Photoshop user.
It crashes almost always whenever I try to save. I have installed the 11.0.1 patch. GPU is turned off.
Here are the details of my system:
Toshiba Satellite A105 running Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3.
1.86 GHz 2.99 GB RAM
C drive (that is used for Photoshop) is 92.92 GB with 53.58 GB free space. I've defraged the drive.
Video display card: Mobile Intel(R) 945 GM Express Chipset Family version 6.14.10.4436
I have other applications off when I am using Photoshop.
I typically am working from NEF files approx. 30 MB
It's really frustrating - and is making it very difficult for me to learn the software.
Thanks.

Thanks - I'm learning how to use this forum. Here's what I thought I had sent:
Here's a typical application error record in the event viewer log:
Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 11.0.1.0, faulting module ole32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5512, fault address 0x0001d7e6.
Does this tell us anything?
and (for the second post):
In the event viewer log, I also found the entry below, before I installed the Photoshop update:
The application, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Photoshop.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 01/31/2010 @ 22:44:40.921 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 7756BB9B (ole32!CoWaitForMultipleHandles)
The above entry came about 20 seconds after this application error record:
Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 11.0.0.0, faulting module ole32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5512, fault address 0x0008bb9b.
The faulting module ole32.dll seems common to all the photoshop application error messages. Is this a clue?

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