Crash upon opening Adobe Media Encoder

Hello,
I just built a new computer and installed Adobe CS3 Production Premium, with all the updates (Premiere Pro 3.2).
I'm editing a project with DVCPRO HD 720p clips.
When I try to open the Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere freezes, and I'm forced to restart the whole computer. (The task manager doesn't help.)
It seems to be random too- sometimes it'll open, sometimes not. But mostly not.
Any ideas? Thank you in advance!
Windows XP Pro SP3
EVGA nForce 750i mobo
Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz
4GB ram (3gb usable, sigh)
GeForce 9800 GT
X-Fi
500GB system drive and two 500GB media drives (all with plenty of free space)

Hi Jeff,
Yes, I can export to movie without crashing.
I ran Sherlock and it found a few broken codecs:
"MainConcept (Adobe2) AAC Decoder"
"MainConcept (Adobe2) H.264/AVC Decoder"
"MainConcept (Adobe2) H.264/AVC Video Encoder"
"MainConcept (Adobe2) MPEG Audio Encoder"
"MainConcept (Adobe2) MPEG Video Encoder"
You can see the full txt report from Sherlock here:
http://greatmindspro.com/documents/Codecs.txt
Is there a way to repair these? I don't have any extra third party software installed, except for Magic Bullet Looks, but it's only an effects-based plug-in- nothing to do with exporting.
How could I repair these broken codecs?

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