PSE compatability with Snow Leopard?

After using PSE v6.0 for years under Mac Leopard, I upgraded to Snow Leopard and it is no longer stable....crashes mostly when saving a file. I tried reinstalling PSE v6.0 but nothing changed. I've looked for upgrades to both Snow Leopard and PSE v6.0 but Snow Leopard's didn't improve anything and I can't find upgrade to PSE. Looked at the web for help but find only old complaints and an inconsistent experience....some installations work and some don't with no fix to be found Need help, please. Don

Barbara,
This is from yahoo mail instead of my Thunderbird Mail client. I don't know why
this
does work with you but does to others. Anyway, here is what I tried to say:
Barbara, I hope you can see this email content. To answer your     questions,
I didn't do a clean upgrade but simply put in the Snow Leopard disk     that
I had purchased from Apple some time ago. Second, and apparently
important, though I thought I had upgraded from v6.0, I hadn't. So     I just
did that...going to 10.6.8! Without deleting the PSE preferences     and
repairing permissions, I tried using PSE on a dozen or so different     images
and several formats. THEY ALL WORKED AND PSE DIDN'T CRASH!!!
Finally, in looking around the fora and web yesterday, I see that     you are
involved in helping so many of us neophytes. May I thank     you for
all your kind...and tolerant....assistance. I hope I am now     restored and
can free you to extend your kindness to others. Appreciatively,      Don

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I hope everyone can contribute to this string and get Apple to fix these problems.

I can address some of these:
Safari defaults to 64-bit mode silently, and this breaks most plug-ins (my issue was with download manager iGetter, specifically). I had to manually Get Info on the app, then switch back to 32-bit mode, which it seems Apple has not designed Snow Leopard to support properly?
All applications, to the best of my knowledge, will run in 64-bit if they include 64-bit code. With most you'll never notice, but if an application supports plugins, then you have to pay attention to whether the plug-in is available in a 64-bit version. More and more are becoming available, but not all. If you have plug-ins that aren't, you need to set the app - Safari or whatever - to 32-bit mode. This is not a bug; it's necessitated by the conversion to full-time 64-bit support. The developer of iGetter claims that an update for compatibility with Safari in 64-bit mode is under development but no time frame has been given.
Snow Leopard is perfectly capable of running 32-bit apps. You just can't mix them, running a 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit app.
Freezes and crashes more often, most often when running Flash video. This occurs when I open multiple videos on YouTube, for example.
Have you installed the latest version of Flash? Flash is almost always a bit problematical, but I've had no problems running Flash content on any site with SL.
Hogging memory even more than it used to (1GB of RAM to run the app?? Really?)
This may just be an issue of not being clear on how Mac OS X allocates memory. This article may provide some insight:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
More of an annoyance, System Preferences now has to restart the first time I click on any third-party preference in "Other". Some work, most don't.
This is normal if a preference pane has not been provided in a 64-bit version.
In previous OS X upgrades, Apple gave me the option to "Backup and Install". This option was not present on Snow Leopard
Actually it was called "archive and install" and was removed as an option as no longer necessary. The normal installation creates all necessary new files and more robustly replaces old ones, so having an archive of the old system folder was deemed to no longer be needed.
so not sure what a user can d if they do not have a Time Machine backup and their install fails.
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Preview slows down considerably when opening multiple files.
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