Upgrade to Snow Leopard - Final Cut works - Compressor, Motion Don't

I am trying to launch Compressor and Motion after an upgrade to Snow Leopard. I did a search for information already but I have not had much luck getting them to work.
I have deleted the listed files and folders and reinstalled the components a couple of times.
I have repaired permissions, tried using the remove FCS and doing all of the above. I am worried that if I remove everything and not just components with issues that I will loose all my plugins, projects and settings.
How do I make sure it all comes back and what is the best path to take to get everything working again safely.
Please direct me to the correct postings if you know without having to retype everything just for me.
Thanks,
Carl

Thanks for the response. I will look at it when I return home and post the error.
Although, I may have figured this out on my own.
Looks like I didn't have the most recent update for snow leopard. I think I am good.
Will update later.
Carl

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Greetings:
I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked for the wireless Apple keyboard and mouse. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - everything except Bluetooth.
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I tried to download Bluetooth from Apple site but the message I got told me that I didn't need it.
Under Finder, Utilities, I found Bluetooth File Exchange but the message I got was that I had to connect a Bluetooth device to my computer.
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Any ideas?
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Puzzled is a polite word for it.
Thanks Barry - I found the file and trie to send it to trash. The response: (This item cannot be trashed as it it owned by the system).
After dancing around with PRAM and SMC and turning on while holding the power-cntrl-option-shift and heavens knows what else, I now have the Bluetooth symbol on the top of the menu bar but it is ghoseted and has a squiggly line through it. This, I didn't have before so I read this as some progress. It notes that "Bluetooth is not available">
However, the Bluetooth icon is still missing from the System Preferences window - you know, between "network" and "sharing".
You note that you reckon the issue is not software based and you may be correct. The reason that I wonder about that though, is that before I installed Snow Leopard, the keyboard and mouse both paired with the box under the Tiger 10.4. That leads me to conclude that hardware is functional and that there is some screwy little bit of software that is not cooperating.
If I could delete Bluetooth from the system and re-install a fresh version, that might help. Or, is there a way I can use the Snow Leopard install disc and only load in Bluetooth?
I'm stumped.
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/Bill C.

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seattle mac girl wrote:
i was told by employee at the apple store i need to install snow leopard to take advantage of the cloud and sync my itunes to my iphone 4s. mainly use my laptop for design work using illustrator CS2 and cant afford to have it not work properly if i upgrade to snow leopard.
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