Captivate 4 suddenly freezing for no reason.

Hello. I have been using Captivate for years. I have a dozen completed modules developed in this software. Today for seemingly no reason, Captivate (4) suddenly started freezing about every 30 seconds. It doesn't seem to matter what type of edit I'm doing, I can only make one or two small changes and the software freezes up. I have to exit and restart either by closing Captivate or ending the process through the task manager. I don't believe it's the file itself, because this is happening on several different files... I tested it on four to make sure it wasn't a corrupt file issue. It's extremely frustrating. The only thing I'm trying to do is edit some existing captions... I'm not even trying to do something complicated with recording, pictures, audio or video.
I have 8GB of RAM running, and 176 GB of free space on my hard drive so it's not a memory or space issue. The module files are under 15mb and under 30 slides, so it's not a module file size issue either. The only new software that's been installed in the past six months is Adobe Reader X; which I've since uninstalled and rebooted - and it didn't solve the problem. I'm running Windows XP with all the current updates and have no other software running except the Symantec antivirus. I have exhausted everything I can think of to try to make this software function.
I checked for software updates and Adobe reported that there are none available that aren't already installed. I can't work like this, and have 6 complete modules to redo. Can someone please suggest something that might help?

Hi there
You may need to clobber the settings file.
What operating system are you using?
Cheers... Rick
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