Installing Leopard & FCS 3

My Mac came with Tiger installed and Leopard install disks when I bought it in 2007. This week I decided to install Leopard, delete FCP 6 and install Final Cut Studio 3 and Photoshop Elements 9. My applications are on HD 1. Except for deleting everything I could find in the applications folder that refered to FCP 6, I let the install disks just write over everything that was left in the applications folder. When it was all said and done, my old Final Cut projects had major problems functioning in FCP 7. So... I have (yet again) move all files I felt were part of PS Elements 9 and FC Studio 3 to the trash and emptied it. I now have four folders in HD 1: Applications, Library, Systems, Users. They have things in them like: Flip for Mac, Squeeze, Visual Hub, Open Office, etc.
Any suggestions on what I should do next to get FCS 3 and Photoshop Elements 9 to work well with the many Final Cut projects I have sitting in HD 4.
Somebody out there has to know what to do.
Thanks
Message was edited by: KennyRay

Except for deleting everything I could find in the applications folder that refered to FCP 6, I let the install disks just write over everything that was left in the applications folder
FCP is much more than what you see in the Applications folder. It installs loads of files deep in the OS itself, many are in folders that are normally invisible to the user.
The Adobe apps do similar things too.
For FCP and other parts of the suite it might be enough to run [FCS Remover|http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm].
The experts here usually recommend a *clean install*. In other words, copy the important irreplacable stuff like project files to a safe place then wipe your system drive and start over.

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