AE CS4 hangs while rendering to AVI

(running CS4 on Win XP Pro x64 on a quad core Opteron system with 4GB memory)
I have a fairly long composition (8744 frames) that I used to render just fine on this system with AE CS2. Then I upgraded to CS4 (and subsequently had my .aep file converted). Now when I try to render the entire sequence to AVI,AE either just hangs around frame 7120 or I get an error around that same frame complaining it could not read a certain input AVI - but I can manually move the time cursor to that frame just fine, and the AVI is fine, too.
I tried changing the memory/cache settings but got no effect. Also changed number of CPUs to no avail. The rendering tab reports max. 35% memory usage (of 4GB) anyway.
Any ideas/suggestions what could be causing this and what I could do to get my movie rendered?!
Thanks!
Martin
Edit: Now I tried to split the sequence in two parts. First part 0-7000 worked fine, second part (the rest) gave me this:
After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <8068> <ae.blitpipe> <2> rect t:0.000000 l:0.000000 w:0.000000 h:-73.000000
Message was edited by: mb02

Mylenium,
first of all thanks very much for taking interest in my problem!
The composition as well as all the footage is non-interlaced, so not sure your suggestion applies. Also, the hang occurs on different frames each time, but very close to each other (I use the Render frame counter to tell where it hangs). In the meantime, I had AE write a Log file, tested the 'secret' preference options, tried to render shorter segements of the composition - all futile.
What I found out is that it is indeed caused by one specific video clip used in the composition. If I hide that, it renders fine. That clip is an AVI encoded using the (free, lossless) Huffyuv codec which, granted, is not supported and I am using it at my own risk but I never had any problems with it before, inlcuding older AE versions. I have converted that clip to another free, lossless codec (Lagarith) and now the composition is rendering.
It took me about five hours to find this out. I still have no good explanation, and I am certainly not impressed by AE's error recovery/reporting. :\
Martin

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