Tiger upgrade: no external video

Okay, what am I missing. I sure it's something obvious but nothing is presenting itself:
I just upgraded to Tiger (10.4.3). Everything seemed to be functioning properly until I opened FCP (5). First thing it did was tell me the NTSC deck couldn't be found--even though the connections hadn't been altered prior to the upgrade--but worse, and more infuriating, I am unable to view the external monitor. I keep selecting External Video>All Frames but it just defaults right back to External Video>None.
I hit Refresh A/V Devices, trashed prefs, repaired permissions numerous times, zapped pram. I don't know what else to do. Am I looking at a FCP reinstall?
alan b

Before you do the reinstall try this...
* shut everything down.
* power up your ntsc monitor
* power up your camera/VTR (or what ever you are using to convert firewire dv to analog audio/video)
* turn on your computer
once everything is on, before you go to FCP, open up system profiler and verify that your camera/VTR shows up as a device on the firewire bus.
Then fire up FCP and see what shows up.
If this does not work, note that there have been a number of issues with QT7 and the system's ability to locate devices on the firewire bus. You may need to reinstall QT7. There USED to be a number of posts about this subject but with the reorganization of the forum, I'm not quite sure where they went. If it comes to this, we'll find the relevant information for you.
cheers
x
edit. check Shane's post a couple of items down for the link to the QT reinstall solution.

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