Final Cut 5 not starting up

Trying to run FC5, and it will not startup. I have been using it for a couple months, but now it wont start up for some reason. I think it started after I changed the capture destination. It tries to start, even asks if a firewire device is connected, but it just poof goes away when I click on "continue". Ran disk utility, re-installed FC5, neither effective. Any help out there?

I'm having the same trouble. It started this morning. I'd already worked a bit on FC5 and quit. When I came back later and tried to open the same file, the typical splash page with all the start up routine ran and then, poof, I'm back in Finder.
Tried starting the program direcly as well as by double clicking differenet FC5 files. Same thing.
Finally gave up and tried to reinstall just the FCP. Same thing. Then removed FC5 Studio from the machine and reinstalled. Same thing.
I'm stumped and I've got deadlines breathing down my neck. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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