Snow Leopard + Adobe CS4 +Freezes

I'm a Graphic Designer and use Adobe CS4 apps. While using Illustrator on my iMac (2006), the app freezes after about ten minutes. I'm thinking I should just UNINSTALL Snow Leopard since it worked fine before. I've updated everything since this problem began with no results.
If I uninstall will Tiger remain?
iMac4,1 Mac OS X (10.6.4) 1.83 GHz 1GB

No. The only way to uninstall is recover your backup, or use one of these options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1308817&tstart=10
Before jumping down that bandwagon, remember CS4 requires a lot of RAM, and 1 GB is the minimum for Snow Leopard. You can try to make sure everything is running for 32bit:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2176255&tstart=0
And upgrading the RAM to the max your machine allows*:
http://www.macmaps.com/badram.html
It might work, then again might not. As you can see CS4's record with Snow Leopard is not that great:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Best to be prepared before making such a big leap.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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I am hoping I can get some answers and solutions as to why snow leopard is crashing my programs. CS4 and Mail. That's what I know of so far as I use them the most.
As soon as I go to try to save an image in CS4 it crashes. Every time! And when I try to attach an image (jpg) in Mail it crashes.
I am a photographer so working in CS4 is a daily thing for me. So, I had to wipe my HD and reinstall 10.5.
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I pre-ordered Snow Leopard - and CS4 ?

Amazon is taking pre-orders for the September release of Mac OS 10.6 - Snow Leopard. Mine is now on order.
And - my question is - will Photoshop CS4 (and related Creative Suite programs) work on 10.6 ?????
I will make the swap on my least-used computer to do the test.
Anyone have insight into the Adobe-Mac testing to se if it will work? PS CS5 has not been announced so far - so it looks like there will be a CS4/10.6 period of overlap.
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Well Adobe can't publicly state they test what isn't generally available. So its safe to say that no official tests will be announced or discussed at least until 10.6 hits the streets.
In most cases though the Adobe products work fine with general OS releases. For instance. CS2 works on anything newer than OS10.3.9. Granted there are a few issues with OS10.5, but it still works.
I wouldn't anticipate any major issues with CS4 and OS10.6. However, I DO anticipate issues with OS10.6 Apple doesn't get to a solid release until x.0.3 or x.0.4 -- after they've used the general public as beta testers.
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Snow Leopard & Photoshop CS4...

Hi:
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.1 with Photoshop CS4 on a Mac Pro Dual 2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon. The video card I have is this:
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9588
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-252
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.252
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An additional link of interest might be:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/09/afew_problems_found_with_pssl.html
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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I just want to add that we have the same problem. Fonts seems to gain some additional line spacing for no reason.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
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Start there to be sure all fonts that are in play come out with a clean bill of health.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2136944&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2154431&tstart=0
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Message was edited by: STEVO75

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