is there a way to clear the cache? It tries to pull up a file that was last loaded and it seems to be crashing the program as soon as it loads.

Are you using Lion? If so, try this:

http://puredata.hurleur.com/viewtopic.php?pid=28468#p28468

I am on lion. that worked perfect! thanks, I didn't see anything on this when I did a search.