Leopard install = crashing Final Cut

I'm running FCP (the version prior to the latest release) with all of the current updates. I installed Leopard and am running into crashing issues left and right. The program is so unstable it doesn't stay open for more than a few minutes at a time. Is this pretty typical when a Mac OS is updated?
The other programs I have used since the upgrade seem to be running great though.

As an aside...
I get real tired of "do an erase and install" as a recommended practice. Many of us have dozens of programs installed, lots of preferences already set, and lots of "updates" to those installed programs. A regular "archive" or "update" installation takes an hour or so at most, and most of what you've done before is preserved. An "erase" installation may take literally DAYS: heck, even reinstalling MS Office 2004 will take several hours with the five or six automatic updates (download time included). And as you work along, you wind up discovering something you forgot and waste more time.
If I had a single purpose machine with only OSX and FCS installed, that would be one thing, but most of us have multi-use machines. If we have only regular, commercial software installed (no haxies, etc.), an upgrade or archive install should do the trick. If not, then APPLE needs to fix their problems. I abandoned Windows years ago for the apparently constant need to reinstall the entire system, and I hope Apple is not proceeding down the same disastrous path.
Eddie O

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