... Before your Nvidia graphics chip dies its inevitable early life failure.

You can't undo your destiny, and Nvidia parts are destined to fail. If you install their "fixes" it just extends the failure point to outside the warranty period.

ATI by the way have been supporting Adbobe editing features for a while.

Does the term GPU mean "nV GPUs" here, or are Radeons supported as well?

If one follows the photography announcements for the latest Photokina show, he will soon realize with harnessing the GPU power will soon become critical. Almost all dSLR cameras come with 12, 15 and now 21 and 24 Mpixel sensors, meaning that the image sizes they produce are really enormous (let's not even talk about the digital medium format cameras that have reached the 50MP counts). Even compact cameras come with no less than 8 MPs. This imposes a great pressure on programs like Photoshop both in the processing and memory requirements. 

If a modest GPU can help reduce the burden, it will be much more cost effective than using workstation class computers for the required editing and post - processing.