Final Cut Express Shuts down right after capturing

Hello all:
I am using FCE 3.5. I have used this for about a year now and I have developed a problem with FCE shutting down right after I hit escape. I run a lab for a university and it is doing it on ALL of them so it isn't an isolated incident. I repair permissions, reset the PRAM, trashed the prefs and I don't know what else to do.
I am running imac G5's using 10.4.11 and the new imacs running leopard. Both sets are doing it.
Any help would be appreciated since our classes start soon.
Thank you.

Can you tie the crashes to a recent event: a software update, a new piece of hardware? What else is connected to the computers?
(You have, of course, triple-checked that the FCE Easy Setup matches the footage you're capturing, yes?)
After the program crashes, is the captured footage saved?
What's the lab setup? Does each student have an individual user account? On each computer?
Lots of questions, I know...
Here's a suggestion:
Use Disk Utility to repair permissions. Create a new admin account on one computer. Set the FCE Scratch Disk to the internal drive. Disconnect everything but the camera. Try to capture. See what happens.

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Path: /Applications/Final Cut Express.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Express
Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutExpress
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: FCPApp-807301041~29
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 615930 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 101
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 11
Anonymous UUID: EB8CB6DE-4A1E-4A26-8E56-82C0F751F5AB
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Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x801bc612 _pthreadkill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x801bbebf pthread_kill + 95
2 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb80bfcb4 0xb8000000 + 785588
3 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb80c01bb 0xb8000000 + 786875
4 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb80dda6c 0xb8000000 + 907884
5 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb814551b spinlockwrapper + 1791
6 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb801d03b 0xb8000000 + 118843
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x800c6047 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.FinalCutExpress 0xb819448f CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 206155
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edi: 0xb8211620 esi: 0x00000005 ebp: 0xb7fff9d8 esp: 0xb7fff9ac
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x801bc612 cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x801bc608
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One funny thing more, I opened a pdf -file through explorer in cc and it asked me if i wanted to save the changes before closing application. I couldn't do anything for the pdf file, except to save it. ;]
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