DVD Studio Pro 3 not launching

Working fine last night, however, this morning the application won’t launch. The log files are as follows:
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
* malloczonemalloc[537]: argument too large: 3638034432
Anyone know what is going on / how to get program to start?
Many thanks.

Update. Wow, how to write this one up? Here is the procedure that I went through in order to solve this issue – I only hope it can assist others.
First, I tried all standard issue resolution steps offered here and from Apple: dumped preferences files, repaired permissions, etc. Issue not resolved. Decided to re-install application. Followed Apple protocol for application deletion then re-installed. Issue not resolved. Again, deleted DVDSP following steps then re-installed DVDSP 2, which would launch, this made me hopeful, went on to install 3. 3 would not launch. ****. Then, on a hunch, I decided to look into the last time the program ran successfully, which was yesterday. The reason I had this hunch was due to the last line in the error code that was given when I would attempt to launch the program.
“* malloczonemalloc[503]: argument too large: 3638034432”
Not knowing what this meant, I went to Google. Nothing real specific to my issue there, although, from my research, I got the impression that this had something to do with a program trying to access a file that was too large. Hmmmm… hunch time.
Last successful shutdown of program was at 7:43 PM. I did a search of files created around this time and there it was, the only DVDSP associated file created close to this time. It was a custom shape that was imported from photoshop at 7:31 PM and used in a DVD that I was working on. Checking to see if it was corrupt I opened it, it opened fine in photoshop, ****. Thinking there had to be something there, I did a search for the file name. Two files found, one where the time search had found it, and one in the library/appsupport/DVDSP/shapes folder. The file in this folder was created at 7:43 PM, the exact time of the last successful shutdown of the program, however, it was not found when I searched by creation date, as the original file was. The file size of this file was 0KB. Ah HA! Maybe, just maybe. I deleted this file and attempted to re-launch DVDSP…
SUCCESS!!!!!
Hot ****! Sorry for the long narrative but I’m just so happy I could crap myself. I guess this file that was a custom shape created in photoshop and imported into DVDSP, successfully I might add, as I programmed the button and everything, but when I closed the program, DVDSP apparently tried to re-copy the file into its own directory and corrupted the file. Once deleted, all works as should, WOW. What a pain in the ***!
I only hope this comes to be helpful to some poor soul who has a crashing application that maybe recently imported a custom shape or otherwise.
Out.

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