GarageBand '08 won't open

*Still not working for me!* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can someone help me. I feel lost! I read on the "Celemony" web site (http://www.celemony.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?p=9807#9807) that LEOPARD does not allow for rewire. And Melodyne seems to be the problem, as it is the last thing I installed before my GarageBand and Logic 8 went crap house on me. Neither are working and I did everything listed here in this forum.
Anyone with any luck on this matter PLEASE clue me in.
I need HELP!

I found another thread and near the end it mentioned a possibility with fonts and this seems to have worked for me:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1075291&tstart=25
The suggestion was to move the fonts folder in my Library folder of my home folder, ~/Library/Fonts, and instead of doing that I used Font Book in the Applications folder to turn off my fonts. I opened Font Book and right-clicked on the User collection, then chose "Disable User". You can also choose the same option from the Edit menu after selecting the User collection. I didn't select each and every font, I just selected the collection named "User" in the upper left corner of the window.
After waiting a moment for Font Book to respond and disable the fonts, the fonts became grey. I started GarageBand, the initializing window appeared, and then disappeared, and then the new features in GarageBand '08 appeared. It worked.
Using Font Book, I didn't have to move the Fonts folder and I didn't have to restart or log out. That's the way it's suppose to work, and it's nice that it did.
As a test, I quit GarageBand and opened it a second time, and I noticed the welcome to GarageBand '08 window didn't show up, just the start a project window. So, I quit GarageBand, enabled all of my fonts again, and then opened GarageBand again, but it failed as it did before. I was thinking maybe the welcome window was having the problems with the fonts, but apparently that's not the problem.
For now, I'll have to leave the fonts disabled until I can go through each font with Font Book. So, Font Book has helped me workaround the problem by disabling my fonts and GarageBand '08 will now open. By the way, Font Book is an application included with the operating system.
I hope this helps anybody else having similar problems with GarageBand '08 not opening or crashing upon opening.

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