Topaz Plug-ins not working in LR 4

Spent over two hours on the technical support chat line this morning trying to resolve this issue. In the end, the support specialist had to punt and escalated the case to a higher level. Not sure what that means, I haven't been notified by anyone at Adobe. I also notified Topaz Labs and they said some people are having the problem and some are not but they're looking for solutions. Adobe's opinion was that it was Topaz's issue to deal with but after reading the plethora of posts I'm not so sure. I'm running Mac OS 10.7.3 and that seems to be a common thread through a lot of what I read. I don't get the impression that Adobe is listening to their customer on this one. Otherwise their support specialists would have been all over this. Sigh....guess I'm waiting for a patch from someone...maybe.

I had the same problem with LR4 and plugins from Topaz. I have PS3 and am not interested in downloading PS5. Here is what I sent to Topaz and their response:
I followed instructions for removing old versions of Fusion Express and reinstalled. I purchased two plugins as well today,Topaz Adjust and Star Effects. When I attempt to edit photo in Lightroom 4 by selecting a photo, then choosing Photo, edit in, Fusion Express2 64bit, I receive the message Unexpected error performing command: bad argument #1 to \'lower\'(string expected, got nil). I have 6GB of RAM on a Dell N5010 laptop with an Intel i5 2.53Ghz processor, using Windows 7 64bit.
Response from Topaz help:
Hello,
It seems that the issue with Plug-ins and there compatibility is on Adobe's end, and supposedly they are going to be releasing a new version on LR4 that is compatible (a 4.1 version) asap.
Please see here for more info: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
Let me know if you have any other questions.

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