Need a program... (photoshop users!)

[Desimodontidae]

Hey everyone, I am need of a program that can create 3D text. Just a simple program that is easy to make text 3D. But I'm being very picky, and it has to be just like Adobe Illustrator's "Extrude and Bevel" to truely make it look like a block of text. I would just use illustrator, but I get a crazy error message saying there's not enough RAM to make the changes, even at 10x10 pixels! I would use Photoshop, but there's no easy method for getting it to do exactly what I want it to. And I looked online for all the free 3D text makers... I don't want crappy spinning GIF images. So... can anyone help me?

Alternatively, if anyone knows how to take care of that error message, that would work just as well... cause I know it can't be right.

Example:

[Archem]

More RAM. How much do you have, anyway?

[Desimodontidae]

I have an old computer, so probably only 512 (too lazy to check, but Im almost 100% certain it's 512). But Im using illustrator cs3 which is an older version, and I have made sure nothing else was running. It shouldn't be that hard for the program to pull off a very simple command.

[Archem]

CS3 is an older version? I could have sworn it was a fairly recent version... Like, almost brand new.

[ZeroKirbyX]

CS4 came out a few weeks ago.