My CS just quit working with Vista so I got CS3, yeah I know should have dumped Vista, that aside now I have 5 AutoFX plugins. None of them will open from inside CS3 and only two of them will open stand alone. I have contacted, AutoFX and downloaded the updates to no avail. Anyone ever have this problem

I just did a little Google surfing on this one... There does not appear to be a bunch of folks experiencing similar symptoms.

re: AutoFX updates
Did the procedure call for uninstalling/reinstalling the plugins?

yeah after several tries, uninstalling and then re installing the new updates and installing directly to Photoshop they work