DVD Studio Pro locks up - crashes on selecting Format

I searched for this one but couldn't find anyone. having this problem. I believe it's Mountain Lion-related. Mountain Lion is not my friend. I just open the program, hit format and I get a spinning ball. Trashed preferences. This is starting to get me down.

I am very happy to report that DVD Studio Pro has been restored to health. It was an accident. I took someones advice on how to fix a sleep wake issue on the Mac Pro.
This is what I did.
1. Boot up holding down the CMD and R keys to get to Disk Utilities.
2. Run Repair Permissions.
3. Run Repair Disk.
4. Close out of the Disk Utilities and boot the machine.
5. Open the Finder. Hold down the Option key, choose GO from the menu and select LIBRARY.
6. From the Library drag the CACHE fold and the COOKIES folder to the trash.
7. Delete the trash.
Probably recognizable by many of you. This fixed sleep. It fixed DVD SP. Muxing/build and format. It also seems to have fixed problems with opening Toast 11, Squeeze 8.5, Compressor 3.5.3 and Disk Utility without locking up. The last group I mentioned has been very contentious. Want to test some more before a final verdict. It did not fix a skipped frames issue when monitoring BlackMagic audio in FCP 7.

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