Photoshop CS5 can't handle lots of text..?

Recently migrated to CS5.
Was running Photoshop CS5 just fine for a week, working mainly on images... but now that I need to work on something that has more text in it (like a graphical CV) the screen isn't reflecting the changes I'm making.
I can click inside a text box, but I'll never see the cursor. I can type, but I'll never see what I'm typing. What was there before I clicked the text box is still there. It's like the viewport's frozen.
However, if I exit the text box, zoom out and zoom in... I see the changes I made. Ditto if I move the layer around.
There's something wrong with the viewport refreshing. I even turned off OpenGL, reloaded the whole thing... and it'll only work properly for a minute or two before nothing I do in this document gets immediately displayed. I always have to move the layer around, or do the zoom trick, to see what I did.
What's even more peculiar is that this file is only 5-6 megs in size. I've worked with 6 GB (that's right, GB) files in the past week without any problems, because the text was minimal. But the program can't handle a peanut-sized file if it's got a lot of text in it. It's the weirdest thing.
Has anyone else encountered this problem, and if so, what have you done to remedy it?
Thanks.

Also, does this mean I can never have font previews turned back on? Or
is this a temporary solution until you guys fix this bug with an
eventual update?
Unless you can identify which of your corrupt fonts is causing the problem, we won't be able to fix it.
It might be a bug in our code, or in Windows. But it is almost certainly going to be due to a corrupt font file.
We haven't seen that particular problem, or we would have already fixed it.
So we need to know which of your fonts is corrupt and causing the problem.
Font previews are created before you show them, in the background -- a corrupt font file can cause problems when creating the previews and slow things down for a while.

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