PS won't quit

Since installing Snow Leopard, I am having problems with photoshop CS4. It will hang, I can't select anything and under the file menu, Quit is grayed out. I have to do a force quit. I've reset the preferences several times. Ideas?

Snow Leopard is 64 bit and Rosetta is merely an "adapter" to allow 32 bit stuff to run. I have a game (Midnight Mansion) that I have to run in Rosetta. The mansion builder app causes my system to soft reboot at random, so I really don't use it much anymore. Haven't seen any printer issues like this though, but then HP simply told me I'd have to wait till Apple came out with a 64 bit driver for my printer because they had no plans on it in the immediate future.
Rosetta plays okay with Snow Leopard, but some apps don't interface well with things on the other side of the Rosetta.

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Hope someone has insight or it helps others...
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as most recent item from iPhoto in the log.
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iPhone is not "hung" in the traditional sense in that you can do several things within it while it's non-stop Faces spinning wheel displays. I do NOT find it responsive and it does NOT Quit when Faces is spinning forever. tgardner, your experience appears to be different.
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regards
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Hi, I'll try and cut a short story shorter...
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Hi Ian.
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I have enough space on .Mac.
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Hi there,
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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OT

ITunes won't quit - who can help?

I running iTunes v8.0.2 on a Mac Pro 3Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 4MB Ram, 200Mb spare space on 500 Mb HD drive, plus extra drives. Now I find iTunes won't quit, and won't Force Quit. It closes and reopens. Shut down and reboot doesn't solve it. I have researched various similar threads but am not running the applications/widgets mentioned. I do have a first generation iPhone to sync - and that seems to sync ok. Only recent changes have been to migrate to a newer MacBook Pro over the Xmas period and start cloud computing to sync to the Mac Pro/iPhone. Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a fix? Anyone got any ideas I can try?
Message was edited by: andrew_turner

Hi Andrew,
Does iTunes quit correctly when using an alternate iTunes library(on the internal drive)? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1589
Have you installed any plug-ins or add-ons for an earlier version of iTunes? If you have try removing them as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22611
Does iTunes quit correctly in another user account?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Fireworks CS4 won't quit... Ever

I just got CS4 and the only problem I'm running into so far is that FW CS4
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Thank you. I thought I would start here. I'll repost!
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