Final Cut Won't Power Up

Last night I accidently unplugged my external hard drive whiling digitizing. Now this morning final cut will not open. It gets so far and then nothing. I've tried repairing disc permissions. Opening different projects. Powering down. Both Live type and Soundtrack open. Help. Thanks!

first thing to try with apps that dont open is to delete preference files
use this free tool to do this, its from the same folk as Christina's suggestion but its specific to preferences and will work with your FCP & OS versions
Digital Rebelion are well respected here and this application works well
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

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