I'm a total PS beginner, having just purchased and installed CS4 Extended after working with LR2 for a while, and I'm not sure that it has installed properly. When I click on the blue PS icon, Photoshop opens, but all I see is a narrow vertical toolbar on the far left and a wider panel on the far right of my screen. Everything in between is my Leopard desktop with all the icons. Also, the x,- and + symbols are missing from the upper left.
When I open an image using File/Open>filename, the file opens in ACR but only takes up part of the middle portion of the screen with the rest showing the desktop.
Is this the way PS is supposed to open? This is very different than LR (or any other program I've ever seen), where the program opens up in its own window. I'm wondering if I have a bad installation?