FCP Quartz Extreme - Help Please!

I need help. I work on a MacBook Pro w/ the latest version of Final Cut Pro. I recently updated the 'Pro Apps' after Apple's software update popped up on my desktop. After upgrading, then restarting I went to start up my FCP. It won't start/open. What I do get is a "Minimum Systems Checks" box that reads as follows:
This system does not meet the following minimum requirements: • Final Cut Pro requires that your system have a Quartz Extreme capable video card. This configuration is not supported. The software will not function properly with your with your current system configuration.
Somebody please help. What is this? This couldn't have happened at a worse time. Why does it seem every time an upgrade comes out - Apple seems to try to get its consumers to upgrade themselves out of a application.
Help!
David - Merry Christmas

If you depend on your system professionally, you need to either never automatically do a software update, or (and here's what I do), when you have a stable OS/Application combo, clone your startup drive using a program like carbon copy cloner (available for free on versiontracker.com) to create a bootable copy of your startup drive. When and if problems occur (either from a software update, some sort of system corruption, or a hard drive meltdown) you can quickly restore your startup drive to a working state. I have a second internal drive which I use for my clone, but you can actually boot off an external firewire drive if it's formatted properly.

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