Owl Orphanage error message with CS5 windows 7?

I am having a problem with opening cs5 in windows 7 on two seperate machines. I am getting this message - OWL Orphange: Photoshop.exe - Entry Point Not Found. it turns out that the problem is caused by my NIK plugins. I removed the "google" folders from the program files folders and the problem goes away but ofcourse, the plugins are not available. It seem that NIK was auto- updated in the last couple days!

Is anyone else experiencing this and does anyone know if a fix will be offered?

P.S. CS5 starts up extremely fast with the google plugins removed???? What was google doing in there?