Dm3200 Cubase5 Crashes, after reloading song

Cubase
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Hope someone can help me; for days I’m having crashes with some songs!

Here’s my gear:

Tascam DM 3200 with firewire card, firmware 1.70
Powermac 2 x 2.7 Ghz, 5 GB RAM
OSX 10.5.8
Cubase 5.5.2

Here’s what happens:

I’m working on a song, save it, quit Cubase open Cubase again and go working with other songs.
After a while, I quit Cubase again and re open the first song: no output! (also the meters don’t show any sign)
When I look at: Devices/VST connections, everything looks normal.
When I look at: Devices/Device setup/VST system link, the input is my ASIO IF-FW/DM MKll 1 (that’s the Tascam DM 3200) and is connected, but the output is not connected.
When I try to connect it, the “beachball” shows up and I have to force quit Cubase.
In fact all the changes and re-connections I try to make at the Device setup makes Cubase to freeze and crash.

The problem first appeared when I opened an old SX3 song, but now it also happened with a freshly made song, made in Cubase5

I hope someone has the answer; this is very frustrating; whatever I try, I can’t make some songs to play (and have output again!)
What am I doing wrong???

Thanks in advance; any help would be much appreciated!

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Could be the driver is single client. Make sure Windows or any other apps aren’t set to use it.

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Thanks for replying…

But I’m affraid I don’t understand; I’m on a MAC, not Windows…

Cheers…

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Update:

What I tried: open the corrupted song, exported all the midi and audio channels, closed Cubase and reopened it, start a new session, setup my i/o channels and imported the audio and midi channels in it: worked fine, saved it and reopened it; worked well too.

Since this worked well, I opened the corrupted project next to it, to take a look at what effects and sounds etc. I used.
Closed Cubase again, reopened Cubase and opened the “new” project again.
Guess what?!
No output and Cubase to freeze!

Now also the latest driver for the Tascam IF/FW fire-wire card couldn’t be found, so I had to re-install that, works again, but when I want to open it in Device setup/VST audio system/Control panel/Open config app it doesn’t open/show up!

Does anyone knows what I did wrong? please help!

Dunno what this is; I’ve used Cubase since the Atari’s but never encountered this.