DVD Studio Pro Document won't open.

I have been working on a DVD menu in DVD Studio Pro. Every time I quit the project and open it up again it gives me the message that the document could not be opened. I have version 4.1.2. I have Snow Leopard 10.6.6. I have tried using DiskWarrior and reinstalling DVD Studio Pro. I have tried deleting the preferences but for some reasons when I go to harddrive then to Library, then to preferences there is no DVD studio pro preferences. The menu is pretty complex is includes Play, Producer's notes, Chapters, and Crew. Crew has 9 different menus. If there is anybody that knows how to fix this problem please reply. I don't want to do just do it all in one sitting which takes 3 hours. Thank you.

Funny name.
Is this your first DVDSP production?
Reinstalling Apple software almost never solves anything.
DiskWarrior only rebuilds a drive's directories and will not help in this situation, waste of time.
ore valuable, if DW doesn't do it for you is to repair permissions on the system drive.
Your prefs may be in another library, look in your user library and search for .plist using Spotlight set to include invisible files,.
Welcome to the family.
Does the file have a DVDSP icon on it? The proper extension? What happens if you right click on it and select DVDSP form the list of apps?
Try using Google to search for the error message, sometimes that turns up remarkably rich documentation from other users or from Apple's knowledge base articles.
Give us a few days, someone may drop in but traffic can be light on DVDSP forum.
bogiesan

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