PS CS3 crashes in preferences

Question

Just reinstalled PS CS3 on a new hard disk, 8gb ram, oodles of storage, upgraded from vista 32 to vista 64.
The same problem happened when I installed it on vista 32. But did not retain instructions on how to cure it.
Edit - preferences-performance, screen whites, told photoshop has stopped working.
From Event viewer:-
Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 10.0.1.0, time stamp 0x470fd6cb, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000,
exception code 0xc00000005, fault offset 0x00000000, process id 0xc78, application start time 0x01c9e210dd66eba2.
I have reduced the number of fonts to <50, and removed  twain drivers ti old scanners. Using a 64 bit epson driver.

Answer 1

I have reduced the number of fonts to <50, and removed  twain drivers ti old scanners. Using a 64 bit epson driver.
I don't know if this is the solution to your problem; But don't use a 64 bit driver with a  32 bit application ! Remove that and see what happens. If you added that driver recently and remember when, A System Restore point before that date may be the easiest route -- As long as you didn't have many other updates in between.