Lens Distortion Tool problems CS2

Hello
As you can see I am new to this forum and have been searching the internet for a solution to no avail. I am hoping that someone might be able to solve the mystery for me.
I have an image that needs correction for barrel distortion. I convert the image from raw in lightroom and send it to photoshop CS2 as a 16 bit tiff file. I then correct the image using the lens correction tool ( have tried this on a 16 bit and 8 bit file ). I okay the changes and then crop the image with the normal crop tool. I then save the changes.
The image opens up in Photoshop but when I try to open in it in windows xp or something like breezebrowser it will not open. I have also tried other image software and again it does not open. It only likes opening in photoshop. Is this normal or is there a way of making sure it will open in any softarwe like a normal tiff file. Any feedback would be gratefully received.
dlh

There are a quite a lot of variables in your question.

Does this only happen with scanned images?
Does this only happen with saving tiff images?
Does this only happen when you use the Lens Distortion filter?

Etc, etc.

It would be helpful to know what other things you have tried to do to narrow down the list of possibilities.

I've just scanned an image at 16 bit, opened it as tiff in PS2, did a barrel correction, cropped and saved as tiff and it opens fine in the windows picture viewer, irfanview and several other graphics progs with no problems.

It's just difficult from the limited info in your question to offer you any useful advice at this point.