Pressure sensitivity in cs5 (cs4)

Hi, I have Wacom Intuos 4 and I try to use settings for changing opacity by pressure. It's works, but I can't achive 100% opacity. It's always a bit transparent regardless how strong I press the pen. I use last drivers, updates and etc. In driver settings pressure sensitivity sets default. If I change it to more soft it becomes hard to get really low opacity, it's just unable to press the pen so lightly.
So, how I can fix it? In other program (Painter, SAI etc) it's works ok.
Sorry for my English.

I've had trouble with the pressure settings in Photoshop since I upgraded from CS2 to CS5 last year.
I still have CS2 on my PC, running Vista, and the Intuos 3 pen and tablet work fine in CS2, but not in CS5.
I've trashed preferences, reloaded old and new Wacom drivers on numerous occasions, upgraded Photoshop patches several times. It sometimes seems to fix the problem but it soon returns.
I think this is an Adobe CS5 issue and not a Wacom issue. If you look at the Wacom forum's (earlier posts) on this topic, you can see that several people are reporting the problem since they upgraded to CS5: http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4969&sid=79ace877c54989525cd5fdcde8242c66&start= 20
Please can Adobe look into fixing this if they haven't already?
Please test the pressure pens by using fast strokes (as in painting) since it's worst when used this way.
It is impossible for me to use light strokes without every second one being and huge fat blob and I rely on this application for my work.
Many thanks.

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