Photoshop/Leopard incompatible?

I just installed Leopard on a G4 Powerbook and suddenly Photoshop 7 won't open, warning of an "unexpected and unrecoverable problem because of a program error." Any ideas?

Now i'm all split over installing Leopard.
On one hand, most enhancements seem useful and/or sensible, but all of a sudden another 300 $ upgrade fee (and the <insert colorful metaphor here> nuisance of yet another product with forced activation) appear on the horizon. Almost all other software from other manufacturers (even Freehand MX!) still works fine unless it digs deep into the OS itself, so what the <insert another colorful metaphor> did Adobe program into PS7 back then to make it break now? I neither want nor need a Photoshop upgrade (in fact, i usually don't need features beyond PS5), just some Photoshop that works on RGB pictures and has a clone tool, RGB adjustments and layers...
I'm currently looking into Photoline32 (30 day trial) instead, but i'm having a hard time getting used to its "almost-Photoshop" interface and the fact that all keyboard shortcuts are unassign to begin with. A "Tiger Boot Disk" seems too much of a hassle for the occasional image editing, especially in my workflow.
Guess i'll either cancel my 10.5 order or leave it sitting on the shelf, keeping fingers crossed it's just some bug/oversight that'll be fixed by a 10.5.x update.
(a "run as in 10.4" checkbox, as with "Rosetta", would be a nice touch...)

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