Final Cut Crashes on launch

All of a sudden my FCP app will not launch. It was working fine, then I shut down to work in Logic for a while. When I tried to relaunch it crashed and continues to crash repeatedly just as it's booting up.
Just before quitting FCP, I created a new custom sequence preset, and I'm thinking maybe it doesn't like that. But I'll be damned if I can find where the sequence presets are stored to try to trash that.
I've trashed the FCP prefs and run repair disk permissions to no avail.
I'll probably do a reinstall, but I'm on location and they're FedExing me the disks.
In the meantime I'd sure like to get this working again. Any ideas or help would be MOST appreciated.
thanks!

I am having the same problem, i have used FCP for years, I have not opened it for months. Just the other day, it will not open. even after trashing the prefs, when it starts up again, it asks you for a scratch drive then it crashes.. I have also tryed uninstalling FCP 5. installing 4.0 and 4.5 and it does the same thing.. I have seen several posting on this, So I know there are serveral people with this problem,, I hope someone can come up with a fix for this... soon.

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x

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