Problems Sending to Color

Hi there. I'm relatively new to Color, but I have used it successfully on about four projects now, and I feel that I'm starting to get the hang of it.
At least, that's what I thought. Recently, due to a completely different (I think) bug that was causing Motion to malfunction, I had to reinstall my entire boot drive. Everything is working properly since then, except that for some reason when I try to send a sequence to Color, it does everything like normal but when Color opens there is nothing there. Just blank.
I know there's probably a simple explanation to this that I'm just not seeing, but I've had a number of project deadlines this week, and not a lot of sleep. So I thought I'd see what other people thought.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Rob

Hey there. Yeah, sorry. I meant that it opened an empty project. The interface is all working properly, but no clips actually were imported from FCP.
However, since I posted my issue I went back and deleted my preference files, and that seems to have fixed the problem. I think I screwed something up before when setting up the render directory.
Why is it that some days thinking of the simplest things is painful and takes so long?
Anyway, thanks for your response.
Rob

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