Strange Plug-In Behavior CS4 - Opening from Bridge

Hello,
I think that this is the right forum, but it could be bridge instead. I've moved my Photoshop CS4 to my new Win 7 64 bit PC. I am having a very strange situation with my optional Plug-ins and Bridge. This us with the x86 32 bit version. When I open photoshop directly, by clicking on the Icon, all of my plug-ins are available. When I open it from bridge, by double clicking on an image, Only some of my plug-ins show up in Photoshop. I am bewildered. Can Bridge settings (or whatever) in Win 7 64 affect the Photoshop CS4 settings? Any help and / or thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks

Mylenium - thanks. I also was suspicious of the tablet, but the tablet is not in use when this problem shows up. Nevertheless, I uninstalled the Wacom driver, removed the tablet connection, rebooted, and the problem persists. But, I did get a chance to install a new version of the driver (April 2009).
Like I said - strange problem. Since it doesn't crash PS, there's not much data. No error message, no stack trace.
One other tidbit. I still have the crop tool selected. If I load an image and place the cursor over the image window, the cursor changes between the crop cursor and the big white arrow. Back and forth. When it's doing this, if you want to use the selected tool, you have to click right when the tool's cursor is showing, otherwise you get the "bing" noise.

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