Creative Suite CS2 InDesign Freeze Up During PDF Export

Help anyone?
Why does my InDesign CS2 sometimes freeze up when I am trying to export to a pdf? I then have to do a 'Force Quit' and retry.
When I am trying to make a pdf in InDesign, I select >File >Export and export to pdf with 'press high res' setting and then it just
'spools' and freezes. I may have to restart my computer a couple times and then it exports fine into a pdf.
I am on a Mac Pro, Intel Xeon, 2.66GHz, 512 MB memory, Hard drive: 700 GB.
What's the solution?

More RAM, more RAM, more RAM. It's necessary to have a minimum of 2 GB to get anything done with the more recent versions of OSX.

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