Just bought MacBook and found my Final Cut Express HD (ver.3.0) won't work

I have just bought a MacBook (2.16GHz speed, SDRAM of 2GB) and found my Final Cut Express HD (ver.3.0) won't work. I tried running it after transferring it over from my old iMac G5 and keep getting the message "AGP Graphics card missing". I have checked my About this Mac file which tells me I have a GMA950 graphics chipset, that Quartz Extreme is supported but that it has no PCI card installed either. Does this mean I cannot use Final Cut Express on a MacBook?

If pressing "esc" does not work, try this:-
1. Right-click (Ctrl click) the FCE application icon - the one in the Applications folder NOT the alias in the Dock.
2. In the window that opens select Show Package Contents and then open the Contents Folder.
3. Inside you will find an Info.plist which you double-click and it should open in TextEdit etc.
4. About 17 lines down you will see AGP. Simply change it to PCI
5. Click the red window closure button and you will be asked if you want to save the changes. Simply click Save.
The whole process only takes a few seconds and should permanently cure the problem.
Ian.

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