Compressor 2.0.1 broken on 5 Macs

Compressor has suddenly stopped working on five Macs in the my office. It will launch, then immediately crash.
Anyone else having this problem?

Yes... Mines not been working in standalone mode for 6 odd months If I export via FCS the Batch Processor will crash out but the rest of it will carry on and finish the job.
What I find interesting is here in my local Apple Store THEIR Compressor crashes as well and has done for some time... staff like to gloss it over though! I think that something major was broken after one of the 'system' or some such updates but as Compressor is a minor application Apple has never bothered to fix it..... my 2p's worth!
HVXuser....

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