Application launches and immediately quits without any message

I have an old powerbook G4 which I use for only one purpose- to run Mathcad 6 in the Classic environment. (Mathsoft discontinued supporting Macs many years ago so I'm stuck.)
Today I started it up, launched Mathcad, it flashes its startup window then disappears and I'm back in OS X. Other Classic applications run OK.
I seem to remember this happening many years ago with an application, but cannot at all remember what it took to fix it. This particular application has been running flawlessly for me, but now I can't get it to do anything more than flash the startup screen for a second and then quit.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
George O.

{quote:title=Simon Teale wrote:}
Top 2 tips,
2. Increase the memory allocation in MathCad.
1. Reduce the screen colours to 256 or thousands.{quote}
God tips, Simon. However, setting monitor resolutions may have actually been a culprit in corrupting a preference file for the Classic Application.
Recently I just acquired a Dell monitor replacement for my G3, and when I went and changed monitor settings and graphics options the graphics for the App. to optimize it it got corrupted. I tried and tried resetting monitor and graphics settings to no avail of the corrupted graphics. Finally I remembered to trash the preference file for the app. and restarted and it was fine.
[Here|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61528] is the article about
memory allocation for Classic. I generally set my higher demanding applications
using the Apple menu calculator to 3Xs the Suggested Size in the Preferred Size and 2Xs the Suggested in Minimum Size. You can do this really easy too by Copying
and pasting within Classic Calculator and using the keyboard instead of the mouse
for Classics small calculator.
!http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6584/mikemsigq.png!

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