Motion's "Open Recent" Sub Menu doesn't work.

Running Motion 4 and or 5 on Mac OS 10.6.8. Open Recent Sub Menu never shows any recent items. I have dumped the prefrences files related to Motion in the ~/Library/Prefrences for the both system level and users level. Doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? We even unistalled Motion and installed the new Motion 5 from the App Store and have the same issue.
Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Uninstalling a reinstalling usually won't solve simple interface issues. Try trashing the prefs file for you Motion product. I'm on Motion 4 and I don't know where Motion 5 hides its plist file.
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