Snow Leopard - Photoshop won't recognize discs

I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.2) and Photoshop CS2. Before upgrading this wasn't an issue - but when I put in a CD of images, it shows up as an icon on the desktop, but I can no longer go to file>open within photoshop and see the disc. So I have to double click on the desktop icon, and open them from there. While it's not the end of the world, and they do still open, does anyone know why this is happening and/or if there's a setting that needs to be changed that I haven't found! Thanks!

I don't have CS2 installed on this system, but are you using the Adobe Browser within Photoshop when trying to open the files on the CD? I believe that was one of the items that broke in CS2 and Snow Leopard. Switching to the standard Open dialog format may resolve the issue.
-Douggo

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