Soundbooth CS4 only plays a short period

Soundbooth CS4 only plays about half a second of all files and then stops playing.
I have a 2.2 GHz macbook with 4 gb of ram.

Ok.  I checked the source code and that error and line references a failed attempt to load the audio device due to an incorrect device ID.  I suspect that upgrading to Snow Leopard changed some audio device information that Soundbooth is still trying to use from the original 10.5 installation.
So try the following steps and let's see if they help reset everything.
1.  Open Finder, click on your username under "PLACES" then selection Library > Preferences > Adobe > Soundbooth and rename the "2.0" folder to 2.0Backup"  Launch Soundbooth.  This should force it to rebuild the preference files to their default state, and SHOULD reset any parameters to use any new values common to Snow Leopard.
2.  If #1 fails, it may be time to uninstall and reinstall Soundbooth, making certain to enable any options on uninstall to remove all preferences.  I am always hesitant to recommend this since it feels defeated and I am only too well aware of how slow the CS4 installer is, but the error you've described indicates there's just some leftover information from the previous OS X install that Soundbooth isn't able to reconcile.
Please let me know your results and we can move on from there.  In the meantime, I'll write a bug and see if one of our devs might have any suggestions should the above attempts fail to make a difference.

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