Video & Audio effects pulldown 'Final cut 4.5"

I recently had to rebuild my G5. I updated my Panther OS to 10.4.1 and then installed Final Cut Pro.
I've moved all my projects back onto my machine and started editing.
While editing a video I tried to apply a video transition. When I select the transitions from the dropdowns they don't appear. I CAN drag them from the browser window but am wondering why I can't get them to work from the pulldowns. It's not a showstopper but these kinds of things always seem to lead to other problems..... Anyone have any thoughts on this one?

I haven't done an install of FCP 4, but FCP 5 allows you to select which modules you want to install. Some modules will not run on certain hardware configurations and that may be what you are running into.
Try uninstalling and then installing everything except Qmaster, since the exception error seems to involve that module. However, Qmaster may be launching fine and it may be the next module to load that is actually hanging the machine, so if that doesn't work, uninstall again and try installing only one module at a time, rebooting and trying to launch Final Cut after each install.
One other possible explanation that I see. Your version of QuickTime may be incompatible with your version of FCP. From the logs, it looks like you are running QT 7.1.5. which would be very new. If that's the case, try going back to an older version of Quicktime, say 7.0.4.
Hope this helps!
-Phoenix
    Some really old Macs, but they do everything I need and I get to play with new stuff at work.

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