Upgrading from 'Apple Production Suite' to 'Final Cut Studio' ???

I have tried to upgrade Motion1 within 'Apple Production Suite' to Motion2 within FCS without installing the any of the other FCS applications such as FCP, DVDSP, ST.
The end result is that the Motion2 app have sucessfully installed and over written the previous Motion1 but I can not open Motion2 and begin working with it? The Motion icon bounces on clicking it but just doesn't open the application.
Do I need to overwrite the whole of current 'APS' that I'm using with the newer 'FCS' for Motion2 to open and work?
Many thanks
Simone

uninstall FCS and reinstall. you can leave your projects. it's just works better if you do a fresh install.

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