Cannot export media from Premiere Pro CS4

I am unable to export media from premiere pro cs4. The process I go through is as follows
select files/sequence I want to export
select file menu
scroll down to export
select media
nothing happens, premiere pro "freezes", as though it was going to open up adobe media encoder but does nothing, premiere pro can be "unfrozen" simply by pressing esc.
I have tried doing all of this with media encoder open and still nothing happens. if anyone has any suggestions please throw them my way. thanks.
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Using the file>export>media. I want to bounce my whole project down to AVI and Im getting errors from Media Encoder CS4. See below.........
- Source File: C:\DOCUME~1\KYLEFO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\HLC final1_2.prproj
- Output File: C:\Documents and Settings\Kyle Fowler\My Documents\HLC pics and clips\Sequence 01.avi
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- Audio:
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Thanks in advance.

Thanks for those details. I just noticed that all the avi and wavs are still located in the CS3 folder from the previous installation. Could that be the hitch?
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File Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Kyle Fowler\Kyle Fowler's Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\3.0\TAPE 1.avi
Type: AVI Movie
File Size: 12.1 GB
Image Size: 720 x 480
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00;57;02;20
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.9091
AVI File details:
Timecode:
Reel name: Untitled Tape
User Timecode: 08;06;40;11
Reel name: Untitled Tape
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Interleave: 1 : 28.99
Video track 1:
Size is 11.46G bytes (average frame = 123.44K bytes)
There are 102576 keyframes.
Frame rate is 29.97 fps
Frame size is 720 x 480
Depth is 24 bits.
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Audio track 1:
Size is 626.70M bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
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For editing AVCHD Formats recorded in anamorphic 1920x1080 (ex.1440x1080).
16:9 interlaced HD video at 25 frames per second.
48kHz audio.
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Editing mode: AVCHD 1080i anamorphic
Timebase: 25.00fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 1440h 1080v (1.3333)
Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
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Stereo tracks: 3
5.1 tracks: 3
Submix mono tracks: 0
Submix stereo tracks: 0
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Larry, Mark, Jim & Bill -
It is 1 am Tuesday morning and I'd do a primal scream if my family weren't all sleeping upstairs.
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