DVD SP 4 crashes importing M2V files

I've recently upraded to Tiger and Final Cut Studio from FCP HD and DVD SP3. Everything seemed to be working more or less fine before the upgrade. Once I updated the whole system, including the latest internet updates, I opened my DVD SP3 project and converted it to a DVDSP4 project. At this point, DVD SP4 started working funny, like crashing everytime I tried to open its preferences window, and I had to force quit. I reinstalled the application, but nothing changes. Now, I can't access any assets in the assets folders. They're invisible, and when I open the folders they are in the app crashes. It crashes also when I try to reimport any of the old m2v files created by the former version of compressor and used under DVDSP3. What should I do at this point? I need to continue working on this project and I've already created tons of subtitles for this track and need to update it with new m2v media, which the program won't import or see... Anyone know what I should be doing?
Thanks in advance.
Fernanda

I took both of your suggestions.
As it turns out, my M2V files did have messed up "open with preferences," and I followed the instructions to reassign quicktime as the default app for all M2V files, but this repair described in the thread you pointed did not fix the DVDSP crash problem. It still crashes whenever I try to import or view M2V files in the program... I'm still unable to edit my DVDSP project!
Any more thoughts?
By the way, are the preferences just one com.apple files in the user's prefs' folder? If so, I have already trashed it as well...

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Process:         DVD Studio Pro [1315]
Path:            /Applications/DVD Studio Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/DVD Studio Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.dvdstudiopro
Version:         4.2.2 (431.40)
Build Info:      DSP-4315400~54
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [105]
Date/Time:       2012-08-10 07:45:07.946 -0400
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          18354646 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           58
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 5731 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:                      5565D110-70D4-4F1B-BF1A-072C2D138FF3
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000261
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3   ...ickTimeComponents.component     0x9447cde9 _MCIdle + 61
4   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore     0x99f72dcc CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStorage(char**, ComponentParameters*, long (*)(), unsigned long) + 54
5   ...ickTimeComponents.component     0x944786a0 _MCComponentDispatch + 111
6   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore     0x99f6b51f CallComponentDispatch + 29
7   com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8d1d3e MCIdle + 37
8   com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8cfc25 QTOMovieObject::SendCommand(unsigned long, void const*) + 899
9   com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8b337a DispatchQTMsg(void const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, QTOGenericObject*) + 240
10 com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8b31de QTObjectTokenPriv::SendMessageToObject(QTMessagePriv*, unsigned long) + 178
11 com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8b2745 QTObjectTokenPriv::DispatchMessage(QTMessagePriv*, void const*, __CFAllocator const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, ComponentMsgParam*, unsigned long, unsigned long) + 1249
12 com.apple.QuickTime                0x9a8cf894 QTSendToObject + 98
13 com.apple.QTKit                    0x90b811e6 QTObjectTokenExecuteCommand + 83
14 com.apple.QTKit                    0x90b62b51 -[QTMovie_QuickTime idle] + 303
15 com.apple.QTKit                    0x90b065ec +[QTMovie_QuickTime idleAllMovies:] + 308
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18 com.apple.CoreFoundation           0x91eab3c4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation           0x91eab1f1 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97
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21 com.apple.HIToolbox                0x90e2fbb9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 354
22 com.apple.HIToolbox                0x90e2fa3e BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81
23 com.apple.AppKit                   0x962bf595 _DPSNextEvent + 847
24 com.apple.AppKit                   0x962bedd6 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 156
25 com.apple.AppKit                   0x965381c9 -[NSApplication _realDoModalLoop:peek:] + 720
26 com.apple.AppKit                   0x96537945 -[NSApplication runModalForWindow:] + 273
27 com.apple.AppKit                   0x967cbad3 -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 420
28 com.apple.dspinterface             0x00047c4f -[DSPXProjectBinModule importAsset:] + 500
29 com.apple.AppKit                   0x962fda26 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 112
30 com.apple.prokit                   0x0047e414 -[NSProApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 127
31 com.apple.AppKit                   0x963dd255 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 108
32 com.apple.AppKit                   0x963d8d02 -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 169
33 com.apple.AppKit                   0x963d7ff9 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 1808
34 com.apple.AppKit                   0x9642d6ed -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 524
35 com.apple.prokit                   0x004c321e -[NSProButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 539
36 com.apple.AppKit                   0x963d6a4f -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 812
37 com.apple.AppKit                   0x963d4a58 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 5549
38 com.apple.prokit                   0x004a69f0 -[NSProWindow sendEvent:] + 264
39 com.apple.dspinterface             0x000afc63 -[DSPXDocumentWindowClass sendEvent:] + 777
40 com.apple.AppKit                   0x962ed60b -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 6431
41 com.apple.prokit                   0x00481040 -[NSProApplication sendEvent:] + 1901
42 com.apple.AppKit                   0x96281253 -[NSApplication run] + 917
43 com.apple.prokit                   0x004813f6 NSProApplicationMain + 326
44 com.apple.dvdstudiopro             0x0000354d 0x1000 + 9549
45 com.apple.dvdstudiopro             0x00002cf6 0x1000 + 7414
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                  0x9062c382 kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                  0x9062ca9c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
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3   libSystem.B.dylib                  0x9062bcfe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4   libSystem.B.dylib                  0x9062b781 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5   libSystem.B.dylib                  0x9062b5c6 start_wqthread + 30

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