Log and Transfer FCP6 Crashes on open

Running Snow Leopard on a uni-MBP I open FCP 6.0.6 and try to open Log and Transfer, as soon as I select it the program quits. In the console I get "Unexpectedly Quit" as the error, and nothing more. Everything else works fine except this.
Anyone know what could be up? I've tried re-installing and have no success at all.
Thanks!

Sorry you're having so much trouble. You did not say if you ad run all of the updates after reinstalling FCP. Be sure to do that, too. How you uninstalled FCP can make a huge difference; you want Jon Chapell's free FCP uninstaller app, see digitalrebellion.com
We've seen many "unexpectedly quit" threads over the last few months. I had my own episode; very frustrating. I ended up deleting Qmaster, reinstalling it from the FCP disks and then running all of the updates again. No clue yet why that needed to be done but it solved MY problem.
Deleting Qmaster is painless and easy reinstalled (much easier than doing the same with FCP but I have absolutely no idea if Qmaster is related to your situation at all. No idea at all.
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