No Desktop Cinema Preview ctl-f12

Can anyone help. I've lost the facility to use Desktop Cinema Preview. Total pain, seems to have happened during the 10.4.11 update. I've tried everything:
Scrapped prefs
Reinstalled FC Pro 5
Reinstalled Quicktime pro
Reinstalled OSX and did all the updates to 10.4.11 (tried it in 10.4.6 and up, same problem)
Grrrr. It fails to appear in the Audio/Video settings
Any ideas from anyone?
The machine is an iMac Intel dual core 2.16, 2Gb,Maxtor external 320Gb, FC Pro installed on the iMac drive.

Sounds to me like your install could be edgy... might perform a totally clean one... i.e., erase and install OS X, etc... You are running FCP 5.1.4, right?
Jerry

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x

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