Climbing "Time Remaining" in Compressor 2

Sometimes, when compressing large jobs out of compressor 2, the "time remaining" will climb higher and higher and the job stops advancing. I am working on a macbook pro and the files are on my external hard drive (250 gb seagate) connected by USB 2. Sometimes I am able to stop/cancel the job, unplug the hard drive and start over again and sometimes I have to reboot before it will tell me that it is safe to disconnect the hard drive (even after quitting all apps).
Any suggestions?

Hi:
Are you running Compressor 2.3 Universal Binary?
Alberto

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