DVD Studio Won't Open Correctly

A few weeks ago, DVD Studio 4.2.1 wouldn't open correctly. I had used it several times before to create a menu for a DVD. It would start to open but would stop. A black box shows on the screen and the top DVD Studio bar is there but when selecting DVD Studio, File, Edit, etc., a transparent drop-down box appears. It even causes the Apple menu to have a transparent drop-down box so to Force Quit DVD Studio, I have to guess where that is.
So, after reinstalling several times, I bought the FCS 4 upgrade to get DVD Studio 4.2.2. I uninstalled FCS 2 using FCS Remover. Installed FCS 4 but same problem: hangs and transparent windows.
Final Cut Pro has always and still does work OK.
This occurs when not opening a previous project; just opening DVD Studio by itself doesn't work.
I have repaired permissions, verified disk and used the FCS Maintenance programs. I also tried the Pro-Kit 6 back to 5.x procedure: no difference.
jility
MAC Pro
2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
OS X 10.6.5
Macintosh HD: 750 GB (all programs and desktop) Data HDs: three 750 GB HDs arranged RAID 5

Thanks. That file doesn’t exist, probably because I’ve un-installed and re-installed FCP Suite a couple of times. There must be a corrupted file somewhere that doesn’t un-install but where?
DVD Studio still doesn’t fully open and all of the drop-down menus (File, Edit, etc) including the Apple menu are transparent.

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