Text Entry No Longer Works - Controls Tool Selection Instead

Well here's a particularly peeving peculiarity!
Once upon a time, you could throw a text generator into the time-line, double click on it to bring it up in the viewer, click on the Properties tab and type your text into the entry field without problems.
Well, after a short time editing, the situation changes and subsequently it seems I can't do that. Instead, my keystrokes are routed to the tool selection palette or the FCP timeline itself.
This even extends as far as trying to change the names of Sequences or Clips in the Browser.
Subsequently, ALL keyboard input in FCP fails. No keystrokes are accepted at all, not even shuttling around in the timeline. Using the mouse in a menu to export a movie works and brings up the Export dialogue, but I can't type anything in the filename field.
I've tried trashing prefs, caches, logging in under a different user account, repairing permissions, lighting black candles and meditating upon mental images of Steve Jobs and nothing seems to work.
Back in the rest of the OS, say in the Finder, keyboard input is working fine.
The only FCP related information in the Console log is a failure to load a Filter bundle - which is odd because 5.1.4 is supposed to be specifically to fix filter errors:
Final Cut Pro[241] * -[NSBundle load]: Error loading code /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/FxPlug/ExtraFilters.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ExtraFilters for bundle /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/FxPlug/ExtraFilters.bundle, error code 4 (link edit error code 4, error number 0 (Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/ProCore.framework/Versions/A/ProCore
Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/FxPlug/ExtraFilters.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ExtraFilters
Reason: image not found))
I have FCP installed on a laptop too and it seems the same symptoms occur there.
What gives? Is it time to reapply the latest FCP update? Do I have difficult to diagnose font problems? Must I sacrifice another virgin to the gods?
This is FCP 5.1.4 on 10.4.8

Could it be ...?
Trying to solve this is as irritating as having a grain of sand lodged in a soft mucus membrane - but from such irritations oysters make pearls!
(Positive thinking. It stops me using the hammer...)
It seems, at the moment, that this problem is related to using older project files, those created before 5.1.4, with 5.1.4. You do seem to get an alert asking if you want to update the project but perhaps this update doesn't complete correctly.
I haven't had a lot of time to explore but it seems new projects created in 5.1.4 don't suffer this problem.

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