To be fair, Bob, I had done a lot of reading to ensure the apps I would work properly, among them were multiple reassuarnces from various Adobe blogs that no known issues existed with CS6 and Mountain Lion. I also did not upgrade right away. I waited three weeks to see if there were any big problems which would surely have surfaced in any of the various tech blogs that I read on a regular basis. Perhaps it would have been more prudent to have waited three months, but it's not like I dove in head first before checking to see if there was no water in the pool.
I'm doing my best to troubleshoot this problem, and am reporting my findings to try and help others who are also searching for solutions. I'm in agreement with many others here in thinking that doing a clean install is not a good solution. In fact doing a reformat and reinstall is a rather inelegant way of having to solve computer issues. It's like using a hammer to kill a fly. I would say the same for Windows issues -- it's very rare that you actually need to de a full reformat to solve Windows problems as well -- it's a lazy way of approaching it, and even if the problem is solved, you'll never know what was wrong, nor how to help others fix the issue. As many here have reported, doing a clean install didn't help everyone, so clearly it's not the right fix. There is somethign very specific going on that needs to be patched. By sharing all of the things we're trying we'll eventually find a pattern. For example, why is it that the apps seem to work fine after you create a new user? Why, in my case, does a permissions repair fix the problem temporarily? I'd bet that both of those are linked and do a fair job of pointing us in the right direction..
Of course I could always revert back to a backup before Mountain Lion was installed, but on the whole, my computing experience has gotten better with Mountain Lion. There were lots of problems I had previously in Lion that are now fixed. And many new features are welcome -- Notification Centre anyone?
So we're not "complaining" as you put it, we're trying to solve a problem that a growing number of us are experiencing. Somebody has to be first to upgrade, otherwise it would just take longer for problems like this to arise, and even longer for them to be resolved.
