Photoshop Elements 8 for the Mac crashes on exit

I recently installed PE 8 for the Mac on an iMac running OS x 10.6.4. When I exit the program I get an error message from the OS that Photoshop Elements quit unexpectedly. I also get an error message from PE that it crashed.
With the assistance of tech support I have downloaded it again, reinstalled it and even set up another admin accounted and repeated the downloading and installation process to no avail. I am still waiting for a reply from "upper level techs."
I have not started to use PE8 because I am reluctant to invest a lot of effort and photos until this is corrected.

Cal-
That's a bummer. I think Elements is probably half way between iPhoto and Aperture... the advantage is that it sets you up to move pretty seamlessly to Photoshop, which is clearly a lot more powerful than Aperture. But if Aperture does all you want, you will probably be happy with it.
You didn't happen to save the email from Adobe support, did you? I would LOVE to see it.
cheers,
tom

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Anonymous UUID: 42CCAEE7-C520-BA70-4B27-711A184AB1A5
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Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
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Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        0x93982952 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x96f15167 pthread_kill + 101
2   libsystem_c.dylib             0x940f029c abort + 155
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5   libc++abi.dylib               0x99ffec30 std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 14
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