Photoshop CS4 transparent layer only, no picture.

When I open a jpg, bmp or any other picture file in photo shop all that appearsis the checkerboard tranparent layer. Thee is no picture to edit. What is wrong with photoshop? It also takes forever for the blank transparent picture to load. Windows Vista.

I found the solution after trying everything else including completely uninstalling Photoshop and deleting the files it left behind, then reinstalling did not work either. I then copied the color settings and PSP files from another computer, started Photoshop, opened a picture and everything is working fine now.
I would suggest anyone else with this problem just needs to get a copy of the files from someone else and or keep a back up of the PSP and color settings in a back-up folder as I have now. Adobe should consider a restore feature that automaticaly saves restore points. There are likely other Adobe CS4 programs that also need to back up settings.

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Weird thing is, it shows that PhotoShop CS4 is what is used to open the .psd, .psb, etc files.. but I right click it and it has two other options.
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