[Jennilyn Merten]

Admittedly I’m in over my head here. On some bad advice upgraded to SL without doing a clean install of other apps etc. Had some problems with my E-sata drives but mostly no issues after I downloaded the driver again. Now I’m trying to install FCP studio 3 after dumping FCP academic. This process is crashing my system and now FCP is saying, after apparently installing fine, that I don’t have the right specs even though the software detected no install issues. So, forgive me if this is all so terribly obvious, but how do I undo the damage I’ve no doubt done?

Per advice here, I’m backing up my hard drive to an external Lacie drive using SuperDuper and am preparing for a reinstall of SL. BUT–can I reinstall SL and FCP 3 without reinstalling all my apps? (I have an app install disk for my MacBook Pro but not my Mac Pro 3, 8core.) I’m trying to follow the advice set out here, but any other steps I should take?