Type tool makes CS5 crash

Question

Hi,
It is fairly random, but right now more often then not when I go to access the type tool I get a whole lot of nothingness, I can move my cursor, but I can not click, and I am not getting the spinning beachball of death, and when I do to force quit it sets my machine into a whole whirl-wind of trouble it even made Finder crash. Has this happen to anyone? Is there a solution outside of reintalling. I just installed last week and I have ran all my updates. I am on Leopard and my machine is an iMAC. Help? I need the type tool.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I thought I would share what worked for me after not being able to use CS5 for 3 weeks.  I've been researching, troubleshooting fonts and numerous methods and suggestions I've read on the web. 
This is my computer: MacPro Desktop G5 Dual Core Xenon 14GB ram OSX.5.8
(1) Validate Fonts in Fontbook, make sure you get rid of any fonts causing problems. 
(2) Shutdown computer
(3) Restart in Safe mode (Press button on front of desktop machine, immediately hold Down the Shift key when you here the first restart bong, hold it down until you see the apple logo and a progress spinning wheel. Next the Login dialog box will appear with the words Safe Boot in Red letters. Then type in your Admin password In the supplied text box.
(4) Launch Photoshop, open a file, click the Type tool you should see the Type tool Cursor. It might take a short wait to see a font name appear in the options bar text box. When the type name pops in (Myriad Pro may be the default) You should be able to start typing again. Check out the font list, it will be a short list of the minimal font collection that OSX runs with in Safe Boot mode.
(5) Quit Photoshop and Shutdown your machine
(6) Start up your machine again (don't hold the shift key this time)
(7) Launch Photoshop and open a file. You should see a Type tool cursor, and you should be good to go.
Hopefully you will get the same result as me and you" ll be back in business  What’s happening is that all the permissions are being re-written in safe boot.
I hope this helps some of you bummed people out there! I am a happy camper.
PS I was aCS5 Beta Tester