Soundbooth CS4 Mac will not play files

I can load files into Soundbooth no problem, see the waveform, but click play and playhead
just sits there.
I'm running 10.6.2 Snow Leopard.

Generally, these are the symptoms of the audio driver not talking with Soundbooth.  Probably the simplest thing to try would be to open Preferences > Audio Hardware in Soundbooth, and re-select your default audio device.  (Try changing it to a different device in the list, apply the changes to the preferences, then change it back.)
Did you recently upgrade to Snow Leopard?  A common issue that's been coming up has to do with 10.6 upgrades changing the device ID scheme which causes some applications to attempt to load a driver for a device that no longer exists according to CoreAudio.
You can also try holding down the SHIFT key on launch which will bypass the existing Prefs and load everything in its default state.  The old preference files will then be overwritten when you shut down Soundbooth.

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