Compressor is not using my processors very well. Can I speed it up?

I'm encoding a 2:15:00 FCP comp in compressor for use on a DVD. It's long, but compressor is crawling on the ausio portion of the encode (basic DV video/Stereo audio). I'd expect it to crawl on the video, but the audio? Geez!
I noticed that my CPUs (8-core x 3GHz) are not being used more than 10% each. It's pretty pathetic. this could be going much faster if the CPUs were being used.
Is there a way to speed this up? Or is compressor just inefficient?
Thanks,
-----------------S
Message was edited by: Steve Dorsey

What version of Compressor? If it's version 3, and you haven't done it already, try enabling Virtual Clustering. That really speeds things up, though audio (Dolby encoding, right?) doesn't make great use of this feature.
Of course, if you're exporting directly out of FCP into Compressor, this won't work. And it won't work in older versions of Compressor, only version 3.
Or does that still not get to the heart of your issue?
edit: When you submit a batch from Compressor, make sure the check the small box for Use unmanaged services on other computers

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