Compressor 2 not working in FCP 5

I'm having a problem with Compressor 2 and FCP 5.
For the past several months, I had FCP 5 and Compressor 2 working on
my 800ghz G4 Titanium powerbook. No problems.
However, I needed to go back to FCP 4.5 for compatibility issues with other
machines at work.
Long story short, I couldn't get 4.5's compressor working, and when I Reloaded FCP 5 again, compressor is just whited out when I try to export
from the timeline. Even when I try to load the compressor program by itself, it won't open,
although it shows up in the applications.
I've removed preferences and plists, but nothing is helping.
Any input would be appreciated.

How did you know I had DVDSP2 on my system?
I didn't.
Is the problem I related somehow linked to DVDSP2 being there?
I don't know. However, a good place to start is to de-install anything that is related to Compressor and this note from Apple is the only official document that lists all of the Compressor related files. True, it's for Compressor 1.X, but Compressor 2 is similar and this should give you a start on cleaning up your system.

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