Rendering Sequence with Motion 3 Template Crashes FCP

I am using a template with 8 drop zones from Motion 3 in FCP 6.0.2. The template is used about 10 times end to end with a slight overlap. As FCP renders the sequence about 23% of the way through it crashes FCP. The templates contain still images - no video.
Any thoughts? (Besides don't use templates)
Thanks!

Joe,
You might want to post this in the Motion forum
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=656

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