No video playback after trashing preferences

I'm hoping this is something simple? Last month, I can't remember why, but it seemed like a good idea to trash preferences - no, apparently noone ever made a backup copy. So now I can't see the video when playing back from the timeline. I've been changing audio /video settings with hardly any resulting changes. If I have DV NTSC 48 Khz, with Apple Firewire selected, I don't get audio or video - I just get a still image that refreshes only when i reposition the mouse. If I change it to Digital Cinema Desktop Preview, I get audio, but no changes in video. If I select "none" I do get audio, but no video. Nothing gives me video. I do swap back and forth from outputting to a VHS deck using the infamous DC30+card (and that was the last thing I was doing), but I've since disabled the driver.
Of course, have time constraints - and operate under the assumption that everything should work like it was working last time it was working well, leaving me free to just create and edit away...mybad.

When you trashed prefs, did you use FCP Rescue...
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or FCP Attic...
http://www.chesa.com/pro/
I've not used Attic, but would guess it allows same functionality of Rescue where, once you have good working preferences, you can store a 'backup' of these prefs, then whenever needed, simply 'restore' them.
K

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