Compressor Closes Final Cut Pro 6 Project

This problem has just started happening: when exporting a sequence from within Final Cut via Compressor, using established built-in and custom settings (that worked last week!), Compressor begins to process the batch, but then Final Cut's window flashes and closes the project being exported! The resultant movie is empty black.
Any thoughts?

There may be a corrupt render file in the sequence. Or in the project, or in the preferences. Try exporting a QT reference movie, then close FCP and send the reference movie to Compressor, see if it quits that.

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see if you get some satisfaction from the above.
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