SmugMug Uploader has crippled Bridge; De/Reinstalling Doesn't Help

Hi - and help!!
I've used various version of File Manager/Bridge for about 4 years without much trouble, & currently have Photoshop CS3 on a MacBook Pro running Leopard. A few days ago I made the fateful & apparently lethal decision to install the SmugMug uploader. The result was that Bridge got infected with some evil bug that makes it crash within 20 seconds of being launched - every time. I de-installed & reinstalled Bridge - no help. I de-installed and re-installed Photoshop, Bridge and all components - two times. Didn't help. So - I basically now have a computer that is specially configured to run any software that's loaded on it EXCEPT Bridge.
The SmugMug people say that Adobe actually wrote & support the SmugMug uploader - very bad for SM's branding because it's obviously very flawed, and has the SM name all over it! But I don't really care who wrote the code - I just want it off, off, off my system. Can anyone help? I've been using Macs for 25 years now (literally!) and have been a heavy Internet/WWW user since 1994 and never had anything remotely this destructive happen to me (which I guess makes me lucky! But I still want it to stop...!
Btw a number of people complained about precisely this problem on the SmugMug forums:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=105134
but apparently none of them were lucky enough to have a problem that literally will not go away with repeated installs. One person had luck when they
"disabled the Photoshop Services startup" - but I'm pretty sure I did this (by going to Tools/Photoshop Services and switching it off - did I do it right?) but to no avail.
Thanks to anyone who can help with this!
- W -
PS - Looking in Bridge's "Plug-Ins" folder on my hard drive, I don't see anything that's obviously the diabolical SmugMug code - but if it has a cleverly concealed name or something, please let me know!

Hi,
Here's the paths for the Mac on 10.5 (Leopard). I don't have 10.4 (Tiger) in front of me to check for differences. I didn't work on any Online Services testing so I can't confirm this solution, but it seems a reasonable try (thanks for the post!). Save the .dat files somewhere locally first, instead of deleting them just in case.
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Online Services/Adobe Creative Suite 3.0/cache
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Online Services/Adobe Creative Suite 3.0/clients/Adobe Creative Suite 3.0/sessions
So:
1) Using Bridge or Finder create a new folder for storing the suspect .dat files
2) with a new window, browse to the directories list above
3) move the .dat files to the folder created in step 1)
4) quit and relaunch Bridge
regards,
steve
sn3photo wrote:
I had this occur tonight and figured out how to fix it. I was in the middle of an upload when the power went out. After the power came back, I tried to restart the pc and continue the upload but I incurred the same symptoms as the original poster.
One of two files is corrupted. I don't know which it is, but the system rebuilds them the next time you upload and everything is fine.
Steps:
1) In bridge, select "Edit", then "Preferences". Select the "Startup Scripts" tab.
2) Click the "Reveal Scripts in Explorer" button.
3) An explorer window will open. Navigate to "Adobe", "Online Services", "Adobe Creative Suite 3.0", and then "Cache".
4) You should find one or more files with the extension .dat in this folder. Delete them.
5) Navigate further down the tree to "Adobe", "Online Services", "Adobe Creative Suite 3.0", "Clients", "Adobe Creative Suite", and then "sessions"
6) Once again, you will find one or more .dat files. Delete them.
Close and restart Bridge, making sure that you have "Photoshop Services" checked in the startup preferences.
You probably will have to let bridge rediscover the online services, but once that is done, you should be golden.
Message was edited by: steve guilhamet [simple italic format forgotten on first path]

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