Photoshop Elements 4 won't open, Mac Leopard

Photoshop Elements 4, OS X 10.5.7
Been using Photoshop Elements 3 and 4 with iPhoto 6 for years. Recently, when I tried to open Photoshop from iPhoto, Photoshop crashed.
Since then, I have been unable to open Photoshop from this, my home user account. The load pane opened, Photoshop started loading stuff, got to "loading settings" and crashed. After all preferences and settings have been deleted it gets to "reading workspace modes" and crashes.
Photoshop *does run* from other accounts on this computer. I twice trashed Photoshop Elements 4.0.app and every Adope file I could find and then reinstalled from DVD. That doesn't help.
It appears to me that there must be a pathological item in Photoshop's input queue in this account. If so, I have been unable to find where the input queue is lurking.
The iPhoto entry that caused the problem was not at fault. It gave no trouble when I booted from a SuperDuper clone and used the copy of Photoshop on the clone. I have reported this to Apple as an iPhoto bug.
Can anyone tell me where to find the input queue to Photoshop so that I can purge it?

John Varela:
Your post was emailed to me. I replied by mail, interleaving my comments with yours. Evidently the web site doesn't like that.
A couple of things to beware of when posting to Adobe forums by email:
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Did I spot you over in AUE?
Noel

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