Playback problems in Soundbooth CS4 for Mac

I've seen this posted an number of times with a number of solutions. Trust me, I've tried everything that Adobe and, you, my fellow Adobe users have recommended.
My problem: the playback function in Soundbooth (and Premiere) plays for a second, then returns to the initial position.
Recommendations I've tried:
• Use the admin to set new permissions for the program.--> I'm the only person using my laptop, and the only admin. Didn't work.
• Opened Soundbooth>Preferences...>Audio Hardware>Select I/O as default.-->Yes, I kept getting that error message too, and the same when I selected an input.
• Your_HD>Library>Preferences>com.apple.audioAggregate... & whatever else.plist-->Neither of these files exist on my computer. I've looked everywhere including the contents of hidden files. Every XML document I opened in Textmate to see if they're coded for Soundbooth audio. Nothing!
• Uninstalled/reinstalled-->That didn't work! Even ran a code to delete all my Norton anti-virus peripherals to ensure there wasn't a conflict during install.
The only catch: Last week Soundbooth and Premiere CS4 worked fine. Friday my HD crashed and I had it replaced through Apple Care Protection. I was completely up on all my downloads and software upgrades, including OS 10.6.3. which, like most of you, I've found major incompatibility issues too. Monday I did the reinstall of everything, and now these programs don't work.
I'm exhausted and looking for any new solutions because these programs are essential to what I specialize in.

_durin_-->I've read countless threads on this forum where your expertise in Soundbooth have helped innumerable frustrated Adobe patrons. You're a talented problem solver and I thank you for recommendations. However, those files don't exist on my computer--either visible or hidden. I've checked.
Here is how I solved my problem and regained the power of Premiere and Soundbooth CS4 for my MacBook Pro that recently had a new hard drive installed.
I went to the Apple store and inquired about some issues with permissions. The only option they could offer me was to run a Disk Utility unit on my new hard drive to check for conflicting permissions. After ten minutes of investigation, no conflicts found, and a restart I opened both Premiere and Soundbooth CS4. To my surprise I could import and playback audio and video just fine.
This was two days ago and I have yet to encounter the problem since then.
A success with a different solution to this persistent and troublesome problem.

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