Suitcase hangs when Retrospect is installed

Can anyone please help me?
I just installed the backup-application Retrospect from Dantz, first on my Powerbook G4, running OS 10.3.9. From that day on I had great problems with the font-application Suitcase from Extensis (even if Retrospect wasn't running). I tried everything to fix the problem - reinstall, trash preferenses and font-caches, repair permissions, used FontDoctor - but Suitcase continued to run slow, and I always had to force-quit it because it just hang. Some days later - after the Extensis-support had given up on me - I thought why not try to uninstall Retrospect. And after that, Suitcase worked fine on the Powerbook!
Then I tried to install Retrospect 6.1 on my new iMac G5 (OS 10.4.4), and the same thing happened, but this time the problem didn't disappear when I uninstalled Retrospect.
What make this happen? Does it have something to do with how OS X manages fonts or files from Retrospect? Has anyone else experienced something simular? (Or do you know any backup-software that works fine with Suitcase?)
Alega
iMac G5 and Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

A HT does not find a lot of errors.
It doesn't look for bad sectors or directory or file problems.
Clone your SSD now that you have a clean OS and has the Apple updates on it. Before you make changes.
Install TRIM Enabler 2.2+ on it and any boot volume, to enable TRIM and so that Disk Utility's Repair Disk will trim cells. Mountain Lion Recovery won't  which is a shame, so...
Clone and keep bootable backup clone of your system to use for maintenance.
A really bad directory on a system drive will cause interference from booting.
SSDs really need extra care, and even with TRIM, to be repaired from time to time and couple times a year, to do an erase and restore from a current image.
Of course Mac OS system even iwth apps is small and doesn't need to have any data or media and fits on 120GB usually just fine and still have a good enough amount free so TRIM and Garbage Collection can work properly and not get low on free pages. But 20GB free should be the minimum free, and better to have more, at least whatever total amount is written out in a month.

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