FCP v4.5 Won't open under certain user

Yesterday, one of our G5 machines quit loading FCP, but only under a specific user. Others users can still run FCP, no problem.
I have deleted the FCP preference files from his home folder to no avail.
Any advice?
Thanks

how did you trash prefs ... did you get all of them?
you need to trash 4 files:
com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist
then inside another subfolder called "Final Cut Pro
User Data"
Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs
Final Cut Pro 5.0 Obj Cache
Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prof Cache
there is also a apple knowledgebase article about
this process (for FCP4.5)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93832
... or use FCP Rescue
but maybe you did that already, in which case you
could try trashing the whole Preferences folder in
that users Library folder ... of course that means
the user will have to reset prefs for their account
and all their applications
good luck
Andy
I just deleted both FCP directories within the users home dir, then I deleted the com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist file as well (yes, I backed them up first).
I'm assuming in my case these should be:
Final Cut Pro 4.5 Prefs
Final Cut Pro 4.5 Obj Cache
Final Cut Pro 4.5 Prof Cache
I'll check it.

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