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
My problem is this, if I enable 'Open GL' in Photoshop preferences, Photoshop will crash. If I disable 'Open GL' in Photoshop it will not crash. My understanding is that Open GL isn't properly supported by the video card. I am a little surprised as this Mac isn't that old and I thought Snow Leopard might install proper drivers for this.
Any ideas on what I might try to solve this problem?
Thank you, Glenn

An additional link of interest might be:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/09/afew_problems_found_with_pssl.html
Both were obtained from:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Which you should use to determine if all your software is compatible in the first place.

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