Photoshop no longer opens after install of snow leopard

I just installed snow leopard & am no longer able to open Adobe Photoshop. I get an error message of:
"An unexpected and unrecoverable problem has occurred because of a program error. Photoshop will now exit."
Anyone else have &/or solve this problem?

I also upgraded to Snow Leopard, and work with Photoshop CS2 extensively.
- intel Mac 2.16 ghz 3GB RAM, btw.
Let me tell you, my problems:
It worked fine after installing Rosetta. It worked for a couple of weeks, with some blue screen crashes and Photoshop quits. but ran ok.
Then on a weekend that I had to finish up some work, Photohsop stopped working. Yikes! First it said I had to activate the product. Weird. Well I did, then basically CS2 stopped working and gave me an error message: "A Serious Error has occurred. Please reinstall the software"
Weird again. I reinstalled it. It still would not work. the same "Serious Error..." message. After diggin around on the internet, I found out about all the compatibility issues with ALL the Photoshops and Snow Leopard. I followed different paths/workarounds on deleting, reinstalling I could find on the net, all to no avail. It would always give me the "Serious Error" message. I called Adobe, but the Tech Support is not open on the weekends!
Bottom Line is I eventually had to clean reinstall Leopard OS, which wipes out the whole HD, And then I restored from a Time Machine Backup. BUT - I didn't want to restore from a 10.6 Time Machine Backup, so I had to go all the way back to an Aug. 10.5.8 backup on Time Machine. Good thing I kept my most recent work on another external drive or else I would have lost my work.
My Conclusions: *Photoshop CS2 DOES NOT WORK WITH SNOW LEOPARD*. From my experience, it seems my Photoshop CS2 reset itself to the 'beginning' and basically I was working on it as if it were a 15 day trial mode - after installing Snow Leopard. That's why it lasted for a couple of weeks, then asked me to 'Activate' it. After calling Adobe today, they told me that CS2 is not Tech Supported anymore - there won't be any fixes, patches for it. I should have searched some message boards before I upgraded, and NOT have purchased Snow Leopard. For me I'm happy and content to be living in the not-to-distant past of Leopard 10.5.8 and having Photoshop work properly.

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