FCP won't fully launch after power outage

Hello all,
I walked away for a long render - while gone the electricity went out. The G4 was on a battery back up but the firewire destination drive was not.
I saved the project under a new name and rebooted the whole system. Now, FCP will not fully launch. The opening screen comes up and launch starts to the point it finds my SONY dsr-45 but then it does not open up for a new or old project from the alias nor from double clicking the project name from Finder.
I re-installed FCP and sent older versions to the trash. Still does not fully open.
Other applications (Photoshop) operate as usual. AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHH !
...anybody have any good ideas what to try next?
Fustrated and on deadline.

This gets better... I have a McBkPro with the same version of FCP. So I connect the same FW drive to it to keep editing. But many of the render files were on the G4 so I render again on this machine... the process locks up in the same place each time. I figure it is a corrupt media file so I dis able the clip from the sequence and try to render the same selection - it does fine and finishes the render. Then I move to a diffeerent area on the sequence to render there and again a lock up. This is spiral of death frozen - have to hold the power button down to reboot FROZEN !!!
I am beginning to think the G4 needs a complete and total UN-install of FCP and re-install.
And the FW drive has physical damage from loosing power during a render/write and is dead.
Any thoughts?

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