Constant trouble exporting book to PDF

I have NEVER had any real luck getting a book to export to PDF with CS5 (nor CS3 previously) on the PC. Constant crashing at various points in the process. I'm now trying to export just a portion of the document to see if that will work. Right now, I'm trying to export the first FIVE files (document has 27 files and 674 pages) only, and it is taking a ridiculous amount of time. I'm watching it open all 27 documents at various times --some chapters REPEATEDLY -- which I guess could have something to do with hyperlinks inside the early chapters leading to the later chapters. Not sure. I suppose this could be a memory issue, but I have been unable to confirm this, and I did re-boot and open only the book so I'd have as much free RAM as possible. Since it happens at various point in the process, I doubt it is a specific image that is causing this, but again, not sure. Does anyone have any suggetions on how to troubleshoot this issue? It is incredibly frustrating, as the time it takes for this process to evolve means that I really cannot get much work done during the day.

Divide and conquer.
You hit the right idea by deciding to try some chapters on their own.
If these export ok - then they are fine - move onto exporting the next set of files and keep going.
If you encouter a problem then try half of that set again, then the other half and keep narrowing it down.
It could be a faulty book file though - try creating a new Book and then import the documents again and see if that clears it up.
Have you tried opening all the documents before trying to export to print? If all the docs are open it shouldn't need to open them again?
To let you know it's not a bug or anything - I've done books over 3,000 page with about 40 documents per book.

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