Why Is my FCP background green?

heya guys,
that's basically my problem.
i've been editing the same project for a little while and when i opened it up today for some reason the background was green? maybe i pushed a button accidentally or someone was messing with my machine but either way the background is green.
i tried the whole view>background>black thing and that didn't work.
when i set it to green though it turns really bright green, but when it's set back to black it just goes to a darker shade of green....
i just realized this but FCP is crashing now when i try to export something to an mov file.... even a 3 second clip. this hasn't happend before... WHAT IS GOING ON??!?!? GAH!!$%
not sure what happened but i'd like to fix this asap.
thanks!
-Luca
P.S I'm using FCP 5.0 if that helps

trash your preferences.
quit FCP, download and then run the free helper app called FCP Rescue (press the trash button)
restart FCP and see if its working better now.
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com ... be sure to download the version which matches your version of FCP
you will need to reset any of FCP's various settings that you may have changed from the default; once you've done that quit FCP again, then run FCP Rescue again and use it to backup your preferences (press the backup button)
in future, if things go screwy, you can use FCP Rescue's "restore" button to reload your backup set of preferences

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