I've just run into the same problem and solved it by simply disabling the start-up screen.
The difference is tremendous, the start-up time decreased from couple of seconds the half a second. This bug/feature is really misfortunate, just because of this I've been seeking an alternative editor until I managed to overcome the problem. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,63148,65596> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
