I cant open existing  DVD SP projects anymore.

I am running 10.6.6. with DVD SP 4.2.2. I cant open projects that were built maybe a year ago. I get the error message "Invalid project file format" The project was made March 2010. This is also true for other projects.

We've seen this often over the last few months so scroll down or search, you should come up with something helpful. IIRC, a recent ProApps update damaged some folks' DVDSP. But not everyone; my two installations were unaffected.
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