Photoshop CS5 UI - Minor File Menu Timing Irritation

Photoshop CS5 on Windows 7:
I've noticed that for a brief period after starting Photoshop the main menus become clickable, but most or all of the submenus are grayed out (disabled).  For example:
1.  Start Photoshop.
2.  As soon as you see the UI, click File then try to click Open, which is grayed-out (disabled).  Nothing happens.
3.  This condition persists until you click somewhere else and open the File menu again.  This is mildly frustrating.  One's thought flow comes to an abrupt halt until one realizes that it's never going to enable itself.
May I suggest that the main menu simply not be made available until whatever initialization that makes all the submenus go from disabled to enabled completes...  Delay the menu opening until the submenu items are actually useful.
As a possibly better alternative, enable the submenus while the menu is open, if that's possible.  Then one would simply have to wait a moment at step 2 before clicking on a freshly enabled menu.
Thanks.
-Noel

Okay, the problem goes away when I move all my add-on plugins out of Photoshop's folders.  That's a hopeful sign; it says that a plugin is causing it.  As usual, you were right on the money, Chris.
Fortunately I don't have all that many plugins, so I've added them back one at a time to see what one does it...
Culprit:  OnOne Genuine Fractals 32 bit (the 64 bit version doesn't seem to give the same heartburn to the Photoshop 64 bit executable).
Specific file:  A DLL they include in the Plug-ins\Genuine Fractals 6.0.plugin subfolder, GFStandardMenu.onli.dll, seems to be responsible for this behavior (not surprisingly, it has the word "Menu" in its name).  Unfortunately the plugin will not run without this DLL.
So it looks as though I'm stuck with this behavior for now, unless/until I can get the OnOne people to fix it.  Off to do that...
It's Genuine Fractals Standard 6.0.5 by the way.  I haven't tested with their Professional Edition variant, though I have it.
-Noel

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