PS CS5 Std - Multiple Photoshop.exe Processes Seen Running

Interesting. On a couple of occasions I have spotted more than one Photoshop.exe process running in Task Manager. It was a curiosity and I ignored it, thinking perhaps Adobe was doing something special to split up the work.
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Sure enough, even though I had closed the Photoshop application I started the update from, there was a Photoshop.exe *32 running. Killing that process yielded success with the update, but given that I have read several accounts where people have said they've seen the above error as well, I wonder whether there's a systemic problem with PS CS5.
I have Photoshop CS5 on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. My system is stable otherwise, clean of malware and well maintained.
I realize the Windows environment is one in which anything can and does happen, and believe me I will be checking the health of my system in every way I can, but given that I carefully maintain this system I ask that you please don't discount this problem as a one-off on my particular computer because of something specific I have that's gone wrong.
Those of you running an x64 OS, please start your Task Manager, Processes tab. Do you see more than one Photoshop.exe (or a Photoshop.exe process when you're not running it).
-Noel

No, whatever variant (32 bit or 64 bit) you started stays running. Normally an attempt to start either one afresh brings the currently running variant to the top. For a very brief period both are running, but I assume the second one up discovers that the first one is running and just activates it.
I have just reproduced the problem, by the way... After a fair bit of editing I was running the Genuine Fractals 6.04 plugin and the plugin trapped out. Now there is an "orphan" Photoshop.exe *32 process just sitting there, with no window... It's not actively using any cpu time.
I can't expect Adobe to be concerned about faults arising from 3rd party plugins trapping out, but I'm sure I've seen this issue without that happening. I will report back if I see it again.
-Noel

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