Cannot Save Project

whenever i try to save a dvd studio pro project whilst i'm working in it, i always get the error pop up "The document “PROJECTNAME” could not be saved." whenever i try to save or use command-S. i always have to go through the menu and do a "save as", selecting the previous version and writing over.
why is this ? and can i stop it ?
thanks

Mark, I'm having the same problem. Worked on 1 of 4 DVD set... all was well, but then found I couldn't save, and began to worry. For some reason, it then began to save as normal. So, after Disk 1 is finished, I saved and closed the session.
Tried to open the session next day for tweaking, and it would not open, saying that a "FIN file was missing, and the session could not play without it". Looked in the folder with all the other FIN files, and it was not there. Used Spotlight, and it could not find the file.
So I opened a new DVD SP session for Disk 2, and again it's not letting me save.
Did a 'save as', and it did... but now the 'saved as' session also will not save.
Have you had any success with this??

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Subject: Cannot save PPro CS4 project created on another PC
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