"Temporary file path is not valid. Lightroom cannot start." On a Mac?

Last night LR2.0 shut down on me and now this is the error message I am receiving. I am on a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.4.11. I'd love some assistance on this, as I am in the middle of several projects.

Did the odd little trick work??- And the key is that LR has to be shut down; there
b should be a *.lock file when LR is running.
Prefs- Your preferences file- doubt that there's any problem with it as you seem to have not used a lot of different versions. It keeps track of all catalogs' locations, but can't do so when catalog is moved in Finder. [It does a bunch of other things, too....]

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