DVD Studio Pro 4 behaving strangely after install

Hi. I just did an upgrade from DVDSP 3 to 4 and it’s not going smoothly. First, I hadn’t used 3 in a while and in the interim, I went from OS 10.3.9 to 10.4.9. When I finally opened DVDSP 3, it was not a happy camper: slow and full of unusual quirks, such as when I go to IMPORT -> ASSETS, the pop up window disappears immediately and then is no longer accessible; when I import assets via the Assets window, the assets come in, however the "importing assets" progress window will not close; and I could not open preferences.
OK, so I upgraded to 4, but with all the same results. It’s acting very buggy. What can I do? I found another post in this discussion, all the back to late ’05, which cited the “Preferences window won’t open problem” but he/she was very vague about how that problem was solved.
Also, Compressor 2 won’t stay open for more than a second before quitting out. (I posted this issue on the Compressor board, of course.) I have a feeling these things are hand-in-hand.
Thanks!!

There are error messages for Compressor. In the console.log:
2007-05-20 07:25:20.387 Compressor[1924] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0x5b921b0]
2007-05-20 07:25:20.402 Compressor[1924] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-05-20 07:25:20.402 Compressor[1924] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0x5b921b0]
2007-05-20 07:25:20.402 Compressor[1924] * Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0x5b921b0]
May 20 07:25:24 SMAComputer crashdump[1926]: Compressor crashed
May 20 07:25:27 SMAComputer crashdump[1926]: crash report written to: /Users/stephenaltobello/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Compressor.crash.log
2, 0
In the system.log:
May 20 07:25:24 SMAComputer crashdump[1926]: Compressor crashed
May 20 07:25:27 SMAComputer crashdump[1926]: crash report written to: /Users/stephenaltobello/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Compressor.crash.log
As for DVD SP, nothing pops up in the system.log, but the console.log has this error:
2007-05-20 07:29:34.059 DVD Studio Pro[1935] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0xf301330]
2007-05-20 07:29:34.089 DVD Studio Pro[1935] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0xf301330]
2007-05-20 07:29:35.999 DVD Studio Pro[1935] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0xf301330]
2007-05-20 07:29:36.000 DVD Studio Pro[1935] * -[NSToolbarView drawsBaseline]: selector not recognized [self = 0xf301330]

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