Photoshop refuses to open files.

Hi,
Im having strange problems with Photoshop the last few days, they came out of nowhere.
I was working on a few images for an newsletter for a dutch company and saved those files in 2 PSD's , both of them were around 500Kb in size, but i can't open them anymore since a few days.
Everytime i try to open them Photoshop gives me the error that i don't have enough RAM, after 2-3 tries photoshop crashes, giving me a mesage that "photoshop had to exit because bla bla" ( the typical crash error )
Now comes the strange thing, i can open them when using bridge, but that isn't the option for me as i don't like bridge.
Also, since 2 days Photoshop started crashing on a random basic.
I first checked my PS prefences because of the RAM error, but Photoshop was allowed to use the default 940 MB of RAM ( I have 2 GB physical and 4GB virutal ).
I tried increasing this to 1,7 GB but that didn't solved the problem.
As desperate as i was i simply removed PS together with all the remaining folders and registry files and reinstalled, succes ? No. The problem is still there.
My system specs:
Windows XP SP2 32Bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2,8Ghz
2048 MB RAM OCZ 667 Mhz Dual channel
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
Photoshop CS3 10.0.1
Any solution ?
Kind regards,
Yorick.

You didn't say on the original post that you had deleted the Preferences. Are you sure you did? Simply removing Photoshop doesn't do it. You have to delete the file from Documents and Settings
A: Hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences file.
A2: You can also simply search your hard drive for a *.psp file and delete it. It will be called something along the lines of "Adobe Photoshop X Prefs.psp".
Under Win 2k/XP the preference file will be found at:
%windir%\Documents and Settings\~username\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\[version #]\Adobe Photoshop [version #] Settings
[NOTE: You need to set Window's Explorer Options to "View Hidden Files and Folders" to display the Preference file]

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