System Profiler Won't save file

I'm trying to save my System Profile file for a software vendor that requested it and when I do it gets to about 50% and then closes.
They said there may be a problem with the OS so I re-formatted and re-installed OSX Tiger this morning and ran all the Apple updates and I'm still getting the same error message.
What do I need to do to fix this?
Steve Cohen
Senior Editor
O2 Media Inc.

BDAqua wrote:
Might try double clicking this that will launch Terminal and run it, not certain what it's supposed to do since I'm on Leopard right now, but may or may not give a clue...
/System/Library/SystemProfiler/SPFireWireReporter.spreporter/Contents/MacOS/SPFi reWireReporter
That did nothing. Actually it wouldn't even open in terminal.
Did you try making a new Admin Account and seeing if it does the same there?
Like I said before this is a freshly formatted system with just the Apple updates on it, but I did try making a new account and the same thing happened, when I tried to save the System Profiler it quit at FireWire.

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