Snow leopard and quitting apps

Have just installed Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and find that all photoshop applications quit, as well as Excel.
I can't see that these are known incompatibles - has anyone else experienced this and what can one do about it?
cheers -

In your profile it say you have a iMac (PPC). A Mac with a PPC processor is not capable of running Snow Leopard.
Allan

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