Photoshop CS4 sudden lag after installing tablet driver

Hi..
So my PS CS4 had never lagged before, it was all running perfectly, all functions are going quickly. I was using the newest driver for wacom intuos 3,
but with using a new driver, I had a weird pressure problem. It would only work with an older driver, so I uninstalled the newest driver and changed it into the older driver. But it won't work unless I trash photoshop prefernces (the ctrl alt shift thing) ...
Suddenly everything just turns laggy, although no pressure problem.. brush lag, text tool lag, everything, even moving the canvas window lags. I don't know how to return the old preferences, i tried increasing virtual memory from 4k to 6k mb, but no change. In performance tab I changed memory usage from 70% to 80% no change too.
I would like to try and change back to the newer wacom tablet, but i never found a solution to the newer driver pressure problem, everyone in some other forum suggested to trash photoshop preferences and change to older driver.. Ages ago, I did this in my computer, and it's running good, but recently I want to do it in my laptop, and it lags.
I'm using windows 7, 64bit.
RAM 8gb,
E and C drive are more than 100GB available.
photoshop version 11.0
openGL turned off (or on, no difference)
I tried uninstalling photoshop but no luck. I tried updating GeForce driver to the latest version, no luck too. (I'm using gtx 420m)
I'm just curious if there's a way to fix the problem without having to download photoshop patch (because it was running perfectly so I don't think it has anything to do with photoshop patch?)
any idea? please tell me if i forgot to mention something..
thank you

Hi, really appreciated your reply, thank you very much. I didn't know anything about this, but if I didn't rollback, I will still have weird pressure problem.. I uninstalled the newer driver properly too, unplugged the tablet, shutting it down, exactly like the people's suggestion in that certain forum. Nobody else seems to be able to find the solution for the weird pressure with newer drivers. I can't find anymore solution beside rollbacking drivers, tried asking here and there.. I also dared to do this in my laptop because this method works in my PC.. Wacom only suggested that we update the driver to the newest, which never helped at all.
I tried photoshop without any tablet drivers, still lags : (
I will try updating photoshop and let you know.
Thanks!

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