Compressor will not launch at all and is greyed out in FCP

Running FCP 5.1 on Mac Pro 10.4.7 and compressor export is greyed out in the list. The program will not even start up on it's own. I've deleted and reistalled twice and still does not work. This all started after and archive and reinstall earlier in the week. Everything worked perfectly back then. Any ideas on how to fix this. I have a deadline to meet and I'm mpeg2less and gotta make some DVD's. Very important stuff I need to deliver.

Unfortunately, Archive and Install moved some important stuff that is installed initially when you did the install of FC Studio.
Some of these "bits and pieces" are now in > /Previous Systems/Previous System 1
Here is Apple's listing of what basic OX stuff got moved and where.
(FC Studio of course is not mentioned, just the basic OS X stuff)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Unless you know exactly what to put back into place, and enable root to move things back into your "System" folders, don't even atempt to do so.
You could follow this Apple doc to reinstall Compressor,
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93234
Or reinstall FC Studio in it's entirety, and run Software Update to get back to where you were before.
This should be as a last resort, as other specific receipts and preferences must first be removed,
as in reinstalling FCP here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302337

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