Bibtex texmaker help

[dogsipod]

ok...i did a search here and read the other texmaker forums. some helped but did not completely solve the problem.
I installed mactex 2008 and i installed the current version of texmaker.

i wrote my thesis without doing the formal "\cite" thing...instead i just put notes to myself about what to cite. now i am going through and doing just that. in texmaker i run the latex command. and i get a message that says process exited normally. then i run bibtex and i only get "error: could not start the command" when i look at my paper i have [?] where there should be cites. if i open terminal and type "which bibtex" it returns the directory where texmaker says it is running the command from. is there any other way to get it to report more then "error could not start the command"...like why it couldn't start it.

% Books
@Book{Kra88a,
  author={Krane, K.},
  title={Introductory Nuclear Physics},
  publisher={"John Wiley and Sons"},
  year={1988},
  chapter={5}
}

@Book{Kra88b,
  author={Krane, K.},
  title={Introductory Nuclear Physics},
  publisher={"John Wiley and Sons"},
  edition={Second}
  year={1988},
  page={118}
}

@Book{Kra88c,
  author={Krane, K.},
  title={Introductory Nuclear Physics},
  publisher={"John Wiley and Sons"},
  edition={Second}
  year={1988},
  chapter={19}
}

@Book{Kra88d,
  author={Krane, K.},
  title={Introductory Nuclear Physics},
  publisher={"John Wiley and Sons"},
  edition={Second}
  year={1988},
  chapter={11}
}

@Book{Sat90,
  author={Satchler, G. R.},
  title={Introduction to Nuclear Reactions},
  publisher=,
  edition={Second}
  year={1990}
  chapter={2}
  
@Book{Rol88,
  author={Rolfs, C. E. and Rodney, W. S.},
  title={Cauldrons in the Cosmos},
  publisher={"The University of Chicago Press"},
  year={1988},
  chapter={5}
}

@Book{Pre92,
  author =  {Press, W.H. and Teukolsky, S. A. and Vetterling, W. T. and Flannery, B. P.},
  title =  {NUMERICAL RECIPES in Fortran 77},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  edition = {Second},
  year = {1992},
  chapter = {15}
%% Articles

@article{Pain07,
  author = {Pain,S.D. et all},
  title = {Development of a high solid-angle silicon detector array for measurement of transfer reactions in inverse kinematics},
  journal = j-NIM,
  volume = {261},
  year = {2007},  
  number = {1-2},
  pages = {1122 - 1125},
}

@Article{Bard00,
  author = {Bardayan, D. W. and et all},  
  title = {The astrophysically important $3^{+}$ state in $^{18}Ne$ and the $^{17}F(p,\gamma{})^{18}Ne$ stellar rate},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. C},
  volume = {62},
  number = {5},
  pages = {055804},
  numpages = {14},
  year = {2000},
  month = {Oct},
}