Photoshop problem isolated to user account.

I am unable to open Adobe Photoshop CS2. An error displays, unrecoverable problem has occurred because something prevented the text engine from being initialized. Support helped me to isolate this problem to my user account. Now I would like to fix the problem in my user account. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot a user account isolated problem?

I had a copy of Photoshop saved on my external drive and it booted up and performed perfectly. I then read your reply and, when I went to delete the plist, I found that it had just been modified. My hard drive Photoshop now boots fine also. I'm sure that means your solution of deleting the file would have also worked.
Thanks for your help.
Eileen

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I go to User Accounts, click Create new account, give it a name, keep Standard user checked, and press Create Account. The account appears to get created and shows up on the User Accounts screen, though it shows that it is password protected already, even
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When I try to log on as that user from the main logon screen, it prompts me for the password (if I have specified one), but it doesn't accept the password (I've tried defining and using various ones), and I get the message "The user name or password
is incorrect". If I don't define a password for that account, when I click on the account button to logon, I get that same error message immediately.
I also noticed that C:\Users doesn't include the new user account folder there. Don't know if that should've been created at this point before logging on for the first time. I also noticed that there's a "Default User" folder that has a lock on
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At some point months ago I did have a profile problem with one of the existing accounts, and had to follow some suggestions on repairing that user profile. Don't know if that perhaps has complicated things. The 3 existing user accounts are working fine.
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