Adobe Media Encoder causing Premiere to Pinwheel. Help Please?

Running CS4....with all the updates.
MacPro Quad Intel
4GB RAM
I finally got all the offline media cleared up for the most part. NOW, when I go to export, all is good until I drop down to add another sequence to the batch, then I get the dreaded pinwheel and can't do a thing from there.
Any thoughts, hints or suggestions??
Thank you so much you guys! I do appreciate it.

Thank you for the clarification. I have heard the Mac-folk call that the "spinning beachball of death." When I read the title of this thread, I imagined the entire PrPro GUI rotating quickly on the monitor!
Harm is correct that it equals the "hourglass" on the PC. For us, that means go get a cup of coffee and see if things change, upon return.
Good luck,
Hunt

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