Remember When?  Pitfalls of reinstalling FCP 4.5

I primarily edit for personal use and pleasure, not for a living. I'm one of those who has a system that has worked for me and I've stuck with it. But, now, a problem has developed that requires attention.
I can no longer capture footage. My FCP system properly edits previously captured footage but the system freezes when I try to capture new footage. It freezes whether I use capture now, capture clip or batch digitize. I get the spinning beach ball and have to shut down my computer to escape the freeze. I end up with a hugh, unusable file that I have to trash. I am playing back on a Sony Beta SP UVW 1800 deck and digitizing through a Blackmagic Decklink SP card at 8 bit uncompressed.
I've noticed, leading up to the inception of this problem, that FCP was not retaining all of my settings all of the time. I would quit FCP, reopen it and it wouldn't open to the last program I was editing. Often the capture settings would be changed. And occasionally, upon starting FCP, the window requesting that I register FCP would pop up. I registered when I purchased the system.
I have rebuilt the permissions, run Tech Tools and Disk Warrior, trashed the FCP Prefs (manually and by using "FCP Rescue") and unplugged all of my external drives to attempt to capture to the internal hard drive. Interestingly enough, when I tried unplugging the external drives I was able to capture properly on the first attempt but the computer would freeze on the second capture attempt.
I am guessing that now I should try reinstalling FCP. I've never done this and am nervous. I've searched this forum and printed out suggestions on how to remove the FCP application and preferences. My question is this: Are there pitfalls to reinstalling for which I should be aware? I'm concerned about loosing QuickTime. Should I be? As you veterans will remember, FCP 4.5 doesn't play well with QT 7.X. Do I need to be concerned about the rest of the production suite? Motion-Live Type- Soundtrack-etc. And, finally, what don't I know about reinstalling that might prevent a disaster?
Thanks for any help anyone might be willing to offer.

clean wipe and install of os X?
is that necessary....im afraid of this problem of not being able to run compressor, snowballing into a problem of not being able to use the computer for anything. in backing up critical files...how do i know what files are associated with an application for example....i have some programs that i no longer have the software for...how do i know what files i need to archive in order to return them to the drive later and guarantee that they will work?
basically...at this point i could care less about compressor...i need to get final cut HD working and i need to protect all the other applications currently on my computer.....
is htere any possible way of just tooling around with FCP related files instead of doing a system reinstall?
thanks.
David

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