Premiere Pro CS4 Won't work on my Macbook

My hardware:
Macbook / OSX 10.5.8 / 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 4GB RAM / 106 GB of free hard drive space
I just purchased the master collection (with student pricing, dunno if this matters). I try launching Premiere Pro CS4, and imported a clip, and it immediately crashed. Subsequent attempts to even launch the software without a hardware reboot simply crashed the software. Now, a week later, I seem to be able to launch Premiere and start a new project, but after I'm prompted to name/create a new sequence, the screen "hangs" on a 100% dark greyy screen with no content and I have no ability to do anything. At the top of the screen I can see the document path (Documents/Adobe/PremierePro/4.0/test.prproj), and thus I'm now stuck. Any thoughts? Is my hardware not robust enough to run Premiere? I have no trouble launching After Effects or anything else. Thanks.

Adobe's specs say "1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card"
Apple's tech specs for my macbook are:
Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 768, 1024 by 640, 800 by 600, 800 by 500, 720 by 480, and 640 by 480 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio
Graphics and video support
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
So, I am guessing that my video board is not "robust" enough. Anyone have any thoughts?
thanks,
-p

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