Photoshop is unstable

I am running CS3 on a macpro OS10.6.1 Photoshop has become unstable. When I select the eyedropper tool to sample a color from a document,the color shows up as the foreground color. I then double click on the foreground color to bring up the color picker dialogue box as I wish to add it to my swatches. I click add to swatches. Sometimes the color shows up, sometimes it doesn't. I then click ok to close the dialogue box, but it doesn't close. I then click the red button on the image to close the file. A message then appears that photoshop has unexpectedly quit and a crash has been generated.
I have tried resetting photoshop to its defaults by pressing the command, option and shift keys when launching photoshop, but the problem immediately reoccurs. I also deleted the adobe photoshop cache and removed stored preferences from the library and ran disk utility from utilities.
I have two users set up on my computer, a main user and another user called test that I use just for troubleshooting whether a problem is caused by a faulty user preference or with the software itself. Photoshop does not crash in the other user when I use the eyedropper tool and save a color as a swatch.
What is going on? Thanks for any help. I have a separate scratch disk for photoshop that has nearly 1000 GBs available so memory is not an issue.

cesspool13 wrote:
I am running CS3 on a macpro OS10.6.1 Photoshop has become unstable.
I'd go back to 10.5.8 until Apple fixes all their bugs.

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When you open Photoshop, it crashes immediately.
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I'm having a bit of a nightmare. I can't back up My Catalog because it is nowhere to be found. My photographs are copied onto Pictures but why can't I see the My Catalog with all the media on my PSE11? Should I uninstall PSE11 first and how to do that on MBP? Am I able to reinstall PSE11 without a CD drive? Will I lose all my albums or is there a way of keeping them somewhere?
I've already lost many photographs when a WD ext drive got a mechanical failure and have had to buy a new apple when my previous one got more and more unstable at the time of the Mavericks upgrade, so I'm quite nervous about this.
Thanks to anyone who could help.

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-installation-photoshop-elements- premiere.html

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