PS CS5 opens but canvas invisible unless in motion

This is my story. Please read carefully, as I'm about to pull all of my hair out...I know this is long and detailed, but I'm trying to anticipate questions y'all might ask.
I'm an experienced Photoshop user. I just installed Adobe CS5 (the whole suite) on my new Win7 machine [computer specs below]. I open a Photoshop document and all the thumbnails are visible on all the layers in the layers panel, but in the window, I only see gray. No picture, no canvas. I tried this with several documents, some of which are photos with only one layer, and some are art pieces with dozens of layers. All layers are visible in the layers panel with all of their thumbnails, but in the window, nothing- only gray from border to border, stem to stern.
I tried opening a NEW PS document and still see only gray only gray. No canvas.
But then I discovered that when I grabbed the tab (that says "untitled-1") and move the window, the canvas appears WHILE the window is in motion. As soon as I stop moving the window, the canvas vanishes. When I undock the window so it is free-floating, the canvas disappears and the whole window is gray. Nothing shows up in the window UNTIL I drag the window, and then the psd, jpg, or blank canvas shows up WHILE the window is in motion and disappears when I drop the window. Everything else is present- all the palettes, the info at the bottom of the screen, toolbars, etc. Just no canvas.
I've tried this with the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version (both are installed- this is a 64-bit machine).
I thought all the CS5 programs might be misbehaving, but I successfully opened documents in AI, Flash, InDesign, and Flash Catalyst and all look normal. This is only happening with Photoshop. (Didn't check out Dreamweaver.)
Am I overlooking something really obvious? A setting or something? Surely this isn't an activation issue? I still have the whole CS5 on my old computer. But if it were activation, would all of the other CS5 programs work?
Thank you... someone please help!
Sasha
This is my system:
External System Details:
System Name and Type: Laptop - XPS 15
Monitor: 15.6 FHD B+RGLED TL (1920x1080) and Skype-Certified 2.0MP HD Webcam & Facial Recognition
Battery: 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Internal Performance Components:
Processor: 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2820QM processor 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.40 GHz
Memory: 8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
Hard Drive: 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M 2GB graphics with Optimus
Optical Drive: Tray Load Blu-ray Disc BD-Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)
Internet & Communication Features:
Wireless: Intel© Centrino© Advanced-N 6230 & Bluetooth 3.0

Visit the nVidia.com web site and see if they have a new display driver you can download and install.  A driver bug is the most likely cause of this problem.
You can try temporarily disabling OpenGL via the Edit - Preferences - Performance dialog to help confirm it's a driver issue.  Make sure you close and restart Photoshop after changing these settings before testing.
-Noel

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