Photoshop cs5 blinking screen, freezing, shutting down

Hi,
I'm a photographer and I recently purchased an 8 core Mac Pro 16 Ram with a standard GT 120 video card (Nvidia Gee Force). When I purchased the computer, I also purchased photoshop cs5. I am running into issues when editing my images in cs5. For example, when I drag and drop images into a droplet, photoshop starts going crazy. My screen starts this flashing, blinking thing (from top to bottom of my screen). The only way I can get it to stop is by pressing the button on my system to shut it down. The mouse will move on the screen, but it won't let me click on anything so I'm not able to force quit. I have an apple cinema 30" display, and mac has tested several things. They seem to think it's a issue with cs5, or maybe it's a possibly of a video card issue or adobe's compatibility with the Mac 10.6.4 version. They think it's an adobe issue b/c I only have issues when I'm using photoshop. My system is completely up to date; all software is updated. PLEASE help with the issue. I'm getting further and further behind on my work!!
Thanks so much,
Emily

As you can read in all the other topics on the same issue: this is a well known bug in the MacOS 10.6.4 drivers for NVidia cards.
The same bug affects other applications that use OpenGL.
You can find instructions on downgrading the video card drivers in the previous topics, or you can just downgrade the entire OS to 10.6.3.
Hopefully, Apple will get an updated driver out soon.

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