Final cut pro 7 menu bar slow

So I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to a SSD drive. I reinstalled OS and everything, I've noticed that since doing that Final cut pro 7 seems strange. Whenever editing and then clicking on the menu bar it takes up to four seconds for it to respond and drop down. I've tried rebooting, reinstalling "7.0.3" update and I've even verified and repaired the disk permissions. PLEASE someone help. With my standard original hard drive I never had this issue. With both situations my media and everything was on the same hard drive.
System Specs:
OS X: 10.8.3
Proc: 2.3 GHz Core i7
Mem: 8GB
HD: 500 GB Solid State SATA Drive
Thank you in advance!
-Tim

Ran into the same issue here.
dual 2.66 6-core Mac Pro
OS 10.8.3
Did a full base 10.8 install. Ran all updates. Repaired disk perms. Ran the original FCS3 installer. Ran all updates. Repaired disk perms again. Opened FCP and got the same 4-5 second menu bar freeze. Not only the menu bar, but playing clips on the timeline has the same delay.
What I can tell you is that it's related to your specific user perms. Try logging out, logging back in as a different user (create a new one from scratch) and you'll see that FCP works just fine. So, as far as I can tell, the error is related only to the original user account that installed the application.
I didn't have enough time to research this in detail, so I just wiped the original account that installed the app and have migrated over to the new one.
Looking forward to hearing from anyone else about a more elegant solution.
-b

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