Cannot render audio fade and/or transition and/or title

I am at my wits end and ready to blow up the computer on this one.
I have about a dozen
DV-AVI clips, captured from a Sony camcorder via Firewire. I am editing them into 7 scenes. I tried this with the first two scenes and I did a test Burn to File, viewed the VOB in Windows Media Player and all worked well. I then added 5 more scenes, all with the same transition recipe between scenes, did another Burn to File and found that past the first two scenes, everything was black. WMP showed video playing, but it was just solid black past the first two scenes.
I scoured the forum looking for clues and hours later I have absolutely no idea what is going on. Here are my specs and what I have tried. I also attached a screen shot showing the 3 areas on my timeline that show different states of rendering (or non-rendering).
Computer specs: PreE8, Win7 64bit, intel i7, ATI card, 6 GB RAM, 400+GB free HD
DV-AVI clips, some with the In and Out points trimmed a few seconds.
I added to each clip Audio Fade In and Fade Out.
Between each clip is the following: Dip to Black, Title, Dip to Black
I added a Menu Marker to each title. They all appear on the menu as they should.
Background rendering is OFF.
I am still new to PreE so I still don't quite understand the whole rendering thing. But as near as I can tell, that is the heart of the problem, but I cannot for the life of me see how to fix it. As seen on my screen shot, the first two transions are rendered green. Now skip ahead to the fourth transition and it is red. Zooming in, the red goes from the start of the audio fade out of the previous clip, through the title, then stops at the start of the next clip. So I thought it is a transition, the title, menu marker or the audio fade out causing a problem. however, even when I removed ALL these elements from between and on the 2nd and 3rd clips (the third transition) it is STILL red! And yes I am pressing the Enter key to render. There are no effects, keyframes, or anything on the adjacent clips and it won't render. The only thing I noticed is now the unrendered part is the first 4 seconds of the later clip.
Why on earth do the first two transitions work, but the rest won't? Why won't it render after I removed everything except the plain DV-AVI clips?

Thanks Hunt for all your help, information and encouragement. I have been able to return to my project (I saved the original with no changes) and was able to adjust the Work Area, Render and Burn to Folder (VOB). When I tested the VOB, everything worked great! So that was the problem. Hurrah!
FYI--in PreE 8, the Burn to Folder option does NOT have a "Export Work Area" button, BUT the Share to Computer (mpeg) DOES, so that is something good to know. Obviously the Burn to Folder option in PrE 8 defaults to burning the Work Area. For my small project, the Work Area concept is not a necessary feature, but I can see how for larger more complicated projects it is a good way to manage resources.
Now that I have had some time away and a couple glasses of wine :-) I can be more positive about what I learned. In my travails, I learned a lot about rendering, keyframes, the work area, stumbled across a way to easily search only the Premiere Elements subforum, and a lot about stop markers (which seems to cause some black-screen problems when too near to menu markers). So it was not a complete waste of time. Oh yeah, and thanks for the compliment on my post info. In my forum travels, I also learned what information is asked for over and over to get more directly to an answer and just put it in the first go-round. And it paid off!
Well, back to the shop. My husband thinks I am crazy for using this aggravating software (I used to use Windows Movie Maker) but I keep telling him, PreE 8 is like a Ferrari. The problem is that it is temperamental and often broken down in the shop causing a lot of frustration. But when it runs well, it is oh such a sweet thrill, so slick and powerful, that I just can't give it up and go back to the Honda.
Margthecar

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