Pro Tools will not launch following power cut during installation

Having just bought an mbox 2 I installed the version of Pro Tools 7 that it came with. Once installed, I opened up the demo project to check that everything worked okay and this was successful. I then downloaded the free upgrade to Pro Tools 8 that was e-mailed to me having registered my copy of Pro Tools 7. During the installation, my house suffered a power-cut. When I relaunched it, two error messages came up on the screen about the mbox and one other product which I hastily clicked 'fix' to. Unfortunately I cannot remember what these were but I think it mentioned something about start-up. I then uninstalled Pro Tools and re-installed Pro Tools 8 and every time I launch it it crashes saying 'Pro Tools quit unexpectedly'.
Unsuccessful troubleshooting attempts:
-Tried uninstalling and re-installing, verying a disk repair after each attempt
-Tried restarting several times
-Tried unplugging the mbox 2 before installing/uninstalling with no success
-Tried installing both Pro Tools 7 and 8 with the same results.

Joey, does it have an uninstaller?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If that doesn't work we may have a munged OS component.
If all the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.

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