Calligraphy Crash FCP 4.5

Hi, each time I tried to go in the style palette in either Title 3D or Title Crawl, it crashed FCP. Does anyone got this problem before, if yes how did you fixed it?
Thanks
G4 500 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 384 of RAM

I think I found the problem. I edited one of the stills, adding a transition, and the 3 second change took 32 minutes to render. Then I made a similar change to another still and it rendered in less than a minute. I then checked the size of the files, which were provided to me as TIFFs. The slow rendering photo is 33 Megs, while the quick one is only 1 meg. I'm going to go back and reduce the size of these in Photoshop. Hopefully that is all it takes. The 33 meg photo must be some poster-sized giant. Thanks to all of you. Great to have a community like this. I learned some new things, and I love FCP Rescue --gonna keep that puppy handy. The more I learn, the more I hope I can become a resource like all of you.
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