Photoshop Elements 5.0 menu lockup (also 3.0)

Photoshop is gradualy becoming useless to me. I'll be editing a photo then the dropdown menus stop functioning. When the cursor is passed over them, they flicker a little but don't do anything. That's what's happening now. Months ago the problem was that all the menus would stop functioning and the cursor icon would remain at whatever I was doing last. This happened with 3.0 also and is the reason I switched to 5.0. I have to save my work continuously. I see no pattern as to when it is about to happen.
I realize that because this is happening with 2 versions of PE that the cure wil probably have something to do with other software, but it is also a defficiency with Photoshop because no othe software has this problem. I think it is also happening in my laptop but iI don't use PE there often enough to be sure.
I have reloaded Photoshop several times, including erasing it totally, so that solution can be crossed out. I saw a similar post in another forum but there were no follow ups.

Antiviruses normally interfere with Photoshop Elements. Do you have any anti-virus installed?
Try disabling it, or adding Photoshop Elements as an exception.

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