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peaking at mixdown

My music is either too loud (peaking) or too soft. In general do you ride the master faders for the whole song? I have my tracks recorded pretty hot so as I add more tracks over the course of the song it overloads. Should I shoot for about -3db on the master meter through the whole song? I like some dynamics but I don't want someone to have work the volume knob the whole way through.

"Unable to Create DAE Deck" on Pro Tools 6 OSX

I installed P.T yesterday but keep getting a message saying "unable to create DAE Deck"
I went to Digidesign help page but the file it asked me to remove is not on my computer so that never helped. Has anyone had this problem? And is there a way around it?
For the record I'm using this alongside an MBox which i dont yet have set up. Is this the reason?

Rack 'em...

Sebatron ,
So... I am taking the plunge and buying one of your 2000e preamps from Chris (cue clapping, cheering, confetti). My question is this- I noticed the 4000e Chris lent me got pretty hot after being on for a couple of hours, so when I rack up the 2000e should I leave a space between it and my other gear? David