SuperDuper crashes after telling it to copy

[rbarkley671]

I recently "migrated" to a new MB Pro (17" quad core running 10.6.8) and attempted my first backup to an external FW drive. Same problem as described above. Found this in the console

6/30/11 2:00:23 PM authexec[24741] executing /Applications Added/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/MacOS/SDAgent
6/30/11 2:00:27 PM SuperDuper![24660] ***ERROR OCCURRED: SDAgent 24741 is not running as root.
6/30/11 2:00:27 PM SuperDuper![24660] ***ERROR OCCURRED: ****FAILED****: result=256 errno=22 (Unknown error: 0)
6/30/11 2:00:27 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[109] ([0x0-0xa10a1].com.blacey.SuperDuper![24660]) Exited abnormally: Broken pipe

Every time I tried to run. I had the padlock locked so I had to enter my PW. In the activity monitor I could find no "SDAgent. I saw this this thread and tried unlocking. It's runing fine now! And SDAgent and SDCopy are two processes that weren't there before. Makes sense as they are children of SD and would vanish when it crashes.

So the question is, is it possible to run SD with the padlock closed? If so, how?

Thanks,
Richard