Trouble opening files in pse6 for mac?

Whenever I try to open anything in Photoshop Elements 6 on Mac OSX 10.5.8, I get an error message stating "This is not a valid Portable Document File (PDF) document. It cannot be opened." This even happens when I just go to open the program without opening anything first! I have already trashed the preferences twice, and searched Google for over an hour, but nothing has helped. If someone else out there knows how to fix this or has had this problem, can you please help me out? Thanks so much!

Open the pdf document in Preview - not Elements. Preview is more "accommodating" towards damaged documents.
Then use the Save As command, and re-save the document as a pdf document.
Save it under a slightly different name. Don't overwrite the original document.
Also use the Save As command and save the document as a jpeg. I presume that you are dealing with a picture.
Once you've done this re-saving, go back to Elements and try again to open these two new documents. You shouldn't have any problem this time. Preview should have corrected any damage.
Until you wrote your question, it never occurred to me that Elements could open a pdf. But when I went to Elements, it had absolutely no problem opening a pdf.

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