Photoshop using external disk as scratch disk without permission?

Hi, I'm having a problem whereby PS CS5 seems to be using my Time Machine disk ...
In the scratch disks pref pane only my local HDD is enabled.
But when I go to eject my Time Machine drive OS X says "Cannot eject, Photoshop is using this drive" or something to that effect.
It's a real hassle to quit photoshop, eject my drive, reload photoshop if I want to take my laptop across the room...

Nope, there's certainly no preferences or plugins on that disk.
Even if I turn on hidden file browsing I can't see anything like an adobe cache file on the disk either (although to be honest I'm not sure what that file name would be)
I wonder if it's something to do with Time Machine actually?
Anyway I'm shifting over to a new laptop with a fresh install of CS5 soon so I'll see if that fixes it

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