PS 7 disappears when trying to Save For Web

Hi there,

I posted something similar as a reply to an older, similar thread. I hope it's not bad practice to start a new thread on the same subject.

This really strange and irritating problem has cropped up with PS 7 - I've been using it for ages and this problem has come up out of the blue, for no apparant reason.

Every time I try to Save For Web, the whole ap closes with no error message or anything. The optimization screen comes up as normal (where you select gif, jpg etc), but when I hit Save, the whole prog just disappears!

I've searched the forums and tried the following, with no success;

Resetting the Preferences file
Setting the Scratch Disc to D: (mine is a partitioned single physical drive)
Clean reinstall PS
Duplicating files and closing the original before renaming and saving them.

I'm running XP Pro, have 768 of RAM and using pretty modern machine - so I don't think it's a memory problem. I haven't installed SP2 but would rather leave this if necessary, cos I'm scared it'll interfere with something else.

Any ideas, advice, expertise would be very very very much appreciated!

Thanks. Martin.

Patch to 7.0.1