Worst PS ever...

Before I begin my rant, apologies in advance to all PS CS4 fans, apologists, and Adobe employees. And please, no offhand assumptions about my experience level or lack of effort to get things running smoothly.
But, in the immortal words of Comic Book Guy, I'm compelled to say that CS4 is the "worst Photoshop ever".
I've been a PS user since version 3.0, have upgraded to every version since, and use Photoshop professionally as a photographer and graphic artist. When I moved to CS4, however, I never expected to encounter so many issues on so many fronts. I've fiddled with preferences, followed tips from this forum to "fix" GPU glitches, upgraded video drivers religiously, and remained mostly silent for 7 months since upgrading in hopes of eventually overcoming the legion of problems.
Sadly, I've been reduced to starting every CS4 session trembling with fear and bracing myself for frustration. Or, just slinking back to CS3 and actually getting some work done without heart palpitations.
Here are just a few of my own unresolved issues, many of which I think stem from Adobe's misguided decision to "roll their own" GUI in lieu of simply using the Windows APIs. (I'll reserve my opinion on how this homegrown grey-on-grey GUI happens to look and feel...)
First, the DELAYS.
Making a selection, moving or resizing a window, painting; all these actions and more are preceded by a soul-wrenching delay of from 1 to 3 seconds. "Click - wait - wait - wait - drag". And no, my desktop is NOT underpowered (9 months old, Core 2 Quad CPU, 4GB RAM, RAID0 drives, running Vista SP1). Everything in CS4 (and ONLY CS4) is just slow, slow, slow.
Then those user interface "upgrades" ... death by a thousand cuts. Drop a file into PS? It's docked, even though I always work with floating windows. So I gotta tear it away, EVERY TIME. No choice in preferences.
And finally there's the "slow fuse". I'll work for an hour or two, and then BOOM. CS4 suddenly and completely loses track of where my mouse is, how fast it's moving, which buttons I've clicked, or where I've positioned the cursor. I'll start a selection box in the middle of an image and it snaps one edge to a random margin. Or the box defaults to a pixel-wide line. Or the brush size balloons to 500 pixels in diameter. Or the image zooms to 800% even though I'm not anywhere near the zoom tool.
There is NO WAY to work at this point, so I have to shut down PS, restart it and relight the slow fuse, working feverishly until things go haywire again. Now, this is NOT an issue with my hardware or the mouse. I've upgraded mouse drivers, tried two new mice (corded and wireless), all fruitless. These mouse issues don't occur in any other applications and I run some high-end CAD apps on this box.
OK, I'm done for now. Rant over. I feel a little better, getting it out of my system. I'll keep hoping Adobe will eventually address some of the more common issues.
Perhaps my particular PC is just unwilling to run CS4, though it runs everything else I throw at it without issue (including some legacy software I wouldn't expect to run at all). Maybe I'm just having some bad luck.
Anyway, thanks for listening. I'm gonna grab a beer and go hum a pleasant tune in the dark.

>But, in the immortal words of Comic Book Guy, I'm compelled to say that CS4 is the "worst Photoshop ever".
>I've been a PS user since version 3.0, have upgraded to every version since
I too have used PS since ver 3.0 and have upgraded to every edition except when they had an x.5 release. I've just upgraded to an i7 machine with 6 GB DDR3 and a Saphire ATI 4850 with 1 GB of RAM. My system and programs are on a 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor and I have two other 1T Seagates (all SATA II). I'm running 32 bit XP Pro SP 3. I had a few problems with the initial CS4 release and my original video drivers with OpenGL support, but since upgrading to the latest versions and optimizing my system per the Adobe instructions (Optimize performance of Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP and Vista), I've never had better Photoshop performance and have not seen the need to use RAID.
There must be something wrong with your system. You don't say what graphics card and driver you are using, but, as others have pointed out, many problems are related to the video card and driver. As to the mouse, what mouse are you using and are you using the built in windows drivers or the additonal software provided by the mouse vendor? I've had some trouble with my desktop Logitech wireless USB mouse. Windows will happily allow more than one mouse to be operative. I have an inexpensive Logitech USB mouse for laptops. When I have trouble (currently resolved), I would merely plug in the USB laptop mouse, which uses the built in Windows drivers and use the extra mouse, avoiding any need to reboot.

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