Graphic Converter and Leopard

Since I installed Leopard on my iMac Aluminum 24" , Graphic Converter is unable to save anything, showing an "error code -43".
I've already contacted Lemke Software and they can't find anything wrong, I even emailed them the .plist (which I've trashed several times).
I know that this may not be the appropriate forum to post this question, but I'm hoping that somebody had the same problem and came out with a solution.
If I boot as an other account, the problem disappears........
What I've done so far:
a) Verify the disk > OK
b) Repair permissions > OK
c) Reinstall Leopard > Archive and Install
d) Reinstall Graphic Converter
All the available updates are done as of today.
Any help is really welcome.
Regards
Pedro

I've the latest version 6.0.1, but yesterday, after posting this message I did a cleanup of some old apps that were while using Tiger, and fortunately, the problem is gone.
On the other hand, I don't know which one was causing the problem since I trashed a few apps at the same time.
It was a conflict with some app, that didn't show up in Tiger.
Regards
Pedro

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