Final Cut express HD 4.0.1 Keeps crashing on start up

Hello, I run a Mac lab at an art school and we have 8 copies of FCE on iMacs.
Model Identifier:
iMac11,2
  Processor Name:
Intel Core i3
  Processor Speed:
3.06 GHz
  Number Of Processors:
1
  Total Number Of Cores:
2
  L2 Cache (per core):
256 KB
  L3 Cache:
4 MB
  Memory:
4 GB
In a computer lab at school.
You can log in to the computer once and open up FCE HD. 4.0.1 and everything is fine and dandy save and quit.
Log back in and ope up FCEHD. Crashes, without warning. Right after the load screen.
Repaired the Disk Permissions and still nothing. I can't find the Pref files for FCE. Are they hidden in the application folder in the package contents?
They aren't in the Library/Preferences Like they usually are. Please someone help I want my students to work with FCE instead of that crappy iMovie. Thanks
-Will
Ps. I have one copy of Final Cut Pro Studio 2 and now it started to do the same thing...

Hello,
Does this happen on all 8 of your iMacs, or just 1 of them?  Is this a new behavior (meaning it worked fine before, and this just started happening?  If so, can you think of anything that may have changed recently, like a security update, installing new software, update or upgrade OS X?
What version of OS X is installed?
When you installed FCE, did you install it under an admin account and run it at least once in that account before running it in any user accounts?
Since this is a lab, are you using Workgroup Manager?  If the user accounts are networked accounts and the user folders are on the OS X Server, FCE won't work with that setup.
Are the iMacs networked, and if so did you use the same FCE serial number when you installed FCE on each Mac?  (FCE inspects the local network when it starts, to see if there is another copy running with the same serial number, in which case it will terminate.)
FCE preferences are in /users/username/Final Cut Express User Settings/Final Cut Express 4.0 Prefs  Each user has their own prefs file.

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