Submitted batch disappears

that's what happens now. I used to get Compressor to work...not now.
I submit a batch (from Final Cut Express or stand alone and I set a preset and destination, click submit. The progress bar shows for a few seconds in the monitor window and then disappears - and so does the batch in the batch window.
This is Compressor v. 1.2.1
I find myself spending half my working day trying to fix Apple software, and it's breaking me down....It's seems like such a crock that the developers couldn't make stuff that works.
Any help from any of you out there appreciated. Something has to be reset or whatever. Frankly, I don't expect any help is going to come of this question...I don't seem many questions answered for this sorry app, and what answers there are are so complex - go to terminal, replace Qmaster, etc etc, and I've tried all that...Apple, if you're listening - - but of course, they don't care about you...they just want your money...buy our new improved products...what a miserable thing - -people are reduced to being slaves to machines...well, this is my livlihood, or it was supposed to be, before it sucked up all my time with troubleshooting. Shoot, I can't afford expensive classes either. What a waste of human potential. Think Different, my ---!

I was going to ask you to post the logs here but I think they'd be far too long. Try looking through them and see if there are any errors listed towards the bottom. Also, try opening the Console and see if there are any relevant errors listed there.
Yes, I have updated QuickTime, but who hasn't? Every other time there's a >software update, there's a new QT version. None of which warns you that >applications will be affected.
If that's the case, QuickTime could well be the culprit. As you're running Compressor 1.2.1, I will assume you are also running FCP 4.5. This was designed to run on QT 6. Some users have managed to get it running on QT 7 but they are on borrowed time and any subsequent updates could break it.
And yes, you're right - they should say applications will be affected but unfortunately they don't.

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Job Segmenting and Two-Pass (or Multi-Pass) Encoding
If you choose the two-pass or the multi-pass mode, and you have distributed processing enabled, you may have to make a choice between speedier processing and ensuring the highest possible quality.
The Apple Qmaster distributed processing system speeds up processing by distributing work to multiple processing nodes (computers). One way it does this is by dividing up the total amount of frames in a job into smaller segments. Each of the processing computers then works on a different segment. Since the nodes are working in parallel, the job is finished sooner than it would have been on a single computer. But with two-pass VBR and multi-pass encoding, each segment is treated individually so the bit-rate allocation generated in the first pass for any one segment does not include information from the segments processed on other computers. First, evaluate the encoding difficulty (complexity) of your source media. Then, decide whether or not to allow job segmenting (with the “Allow Job Segmenting” checkbox at the top of the Encoder pane). If the distribution of simple and complex areas of the media is similar throughout the whole source media file, then you can get the same quality whether segmenting is turned on or not. In that case, it makes sense to allow segmenting to speed up the processing time.
However, you may have a source media file with an uneven distribution of complex scenes. For example, suppose you have a 2-hour sports program in which the first hour is the pregame show with relatively static talking heads, and the second hour is high-action sports footage. If this source media were evenly split into 2 segments, the bit rate allocation plan for the first segment would not be able to “donate” some of its bits to the second segment because the segments would be processed on separate computers. The quality of the more complex action footage in the second segment would suffer. In this case, if your goal were ensuring the highest possible quality over the entire 2-hour program, it would make sense to not allow job segmenting by deselecting the checkbox at the top of the Encoder pane. This forces the job (and therefore, the bit-rate allocation) to be processed on a single computer.
Note: The “Allow Job Segmenting” checkbox only affects the segmenting of individual jobs (source files). If you are submitting batches with multiple jobs, the distributed processing system will continue to speed up processing by distributing (unsegmented) jobs, even with job segmenting turned off.
From the Compressor User Manual

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