Error Messge: Final Cut Pro requires that your system have a CPU type of G5

I recently updated my OS to 10.5.8. I also downloaded AVID codec for quicktime. Then, when I went to open FCP on my MacBook Pro (2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), I was hit with the error message Final Cut Pro requires that your system have a CPU type G5; this system has a CPU type of G4. I've never had a problem running FCP on this laptop. Any suggestions? Help!

Also, I found another person who posted with a similar problem and here's what he wrote, (but curiously, he doesn't state what the fix was to his problem).
After 1 and a half hours of support from Ireland it came out that some llibrary setting
was conflicting with the startup of FCP. Apple did not hear of this problem before. I wonder
how many macbookpro users have the same issue...
mac book pro 17" Mac OS X (10.5.7)

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