Photoshop CS4 extended freezes on startup for up to 10 mins

Hi,
When I select Photoshop to start, it has suddenly started taking an inordinate amount of time to start. This has been timed at 10 minutes!
The blue loading screen appears and it stops at the point where it is reading preferences.
No other design suite programs are affected.
If I open an image in Bridge I can access Camera Raw and open Photoshop from the "Open Image" and this tends to be quicker.
I have tried resetting the preferences. I have tried reinstalling Photoshop, and made sure it is updated fully.
The only changes that were made were the manual installation of a Plug in (NAPP Watermark Creator 1.0.5). This would not install correctly via the Extension Manager, I copied a folder to the Program Files (x86) / Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Plug-ins / Panels / (Watermark folder goes here) and the file WatermarkService.jsx to the C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ Startup Scripts CS4\ AdobePhotoshop / (WatermarkServices.jsx file goes here) both in accordance with the instructions from the creator. Both the file and folder were removed from these locations when this issue began.
Additionally, I had changed the Scratch Disks settings in the Performance Preferences as suggested to not include the boot drive (C: drive)
and assigned another disk with more than 60GB of free space to this.
Resetting the Scratch disk setting to the original C: selection and restarting Photoshop makes no difference.
Once Photoshop does load there are no problems with its usage.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Andy Wallace

Well just to point out something.
By noting that it is effecting both the 32 bit and 64 bit version you pretty much verified that its more then just a application plug-in issue.
See while both are named Photoshop. they are completly seperate applications using completly different dlls, configurations and even plugins. The 64 bit version does not care what you installed into the 32 bit version's plug in folders and by your description you only added the plug in manually to the 32 bit. it does not use them and they likely would not work and would be ignored even if you put them in the 64 bit plug in folder.
Is there anything you changed that would have effected both 32 bit and 64 bit photoshop?

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