Conforming Files in Premier Pro

OKay, I have just about had it and am about to go buy Final Cut Pro. Between the lock ups, the slowness (And my machine is a rocket) and this.....
This is the third time this has started to just happen and it takes 30 - 40 minutes when it does. Every time I open Premier Pro all the files in my project have to go through CONFORMING ritual.
What the heck is going on. This never happened for three years now it happens ALL THE TIME....I do not have time for this nonsense.
I7 12 GB Ram, Merc playback 285 card, ...I'm goin crazy here folks!!!

Do what Jeff suggested, but you need to do this first:
With Premiere Pro closed, delete all the cache files created for your media. I know, I know--otherwise you'll just keeping going through this.
Rename the folder containing your media files, in particular, the media that is causing the reconforming. For example, if your folder is something like "ABC" just make it something like "ABCx" or "_ABC." The point is that, in Premiere Pro's eyes, you need to take these files offline; otherwise, the media cache database is still tracking their location.
Open Premiere Pro and create a new project. You don't need anything special; you really just need access to the Premiere Pro UI. Once open, do what Jeff mentioned. When done, you can close Premiere Pro and delete that project.
Rename you media folders back to their original names.
Reopen you original problem project, and let the files reconform. Theoretically, this will be the last time you have to do this... theoretically.
Technically, you could do this in sort of a brute force fashion by deleting all the media cache database (.MCDB) files in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache, but that would affect ALL your media, and not just the stuff causing the problems.

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