Photoshop file association problem

Hi,
This is probably not the right place as this is most likely not a Photoshop issue, but I'm all out of luck trying to find a solution. I am having issues with file association and was wondering if anyone had a similar problem and may be able to help. I recently installed Adobe Design Premium CS5 only a couple of days ago, upgrading from CS4 and I'm finding that Photoshop is not associated with image files such as .PNG and .JPG and yet Fireworks and even Dreamweaver are.( By the way I'm currently running on Windows 7)
Now when I go to "Open with" on an image, Photoshop is not in the list, so I select browse, I then find the Photoshop EXE and click ok, then it brings open the list of programs to open with again, but after all that Photoshop is not there. I've tried both 32 bit and 64 bit applications of Photoshop, both shortcuts to the EXE and the EXE itself, but nothing seems to work. Other programs within the adobe package selects fine and loads the EXE in the list, it only seems to be Photoshop bugging out.
So has anyone had a similar problem that could please help me out?
Thanks,
Aaron

Before you resort to a fresh install of Windows and all that involves I would do the following.
Uninstall all Adobe programs from the Control panel applet.
Run the Adobe Clean Script to the deepest level.
Clean the registry with CCleaner.
Re-install CS5.
(I don't think I forgot anything!)

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