CS4 crashing/quitting during PDF Export

Hello,
I am having an issue exporting a 108 page document to PDF. The document itself is only 25mb and the links maybe 50mb but everytime it nears completion InDesign abruptly closes...
I have seen the suggestion of printing to Adobe PDF and when I do the overall quality suffers.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Were you able to export any section?
How about a new doc, can you export that?
Two things to try if no section would export but you can export a new doc. First, export to .inx (interchange format) and open the resulting file in ID, save as a new .indd file, and try to export to PDF again.
Second, create a new document with the same page size and layout on the master page (or rename the masters in one doc or the other so they don't have any names in common), and also be sure that the [Basic paragraph] style is identical in both. Select all the pages of the first document in the pages panel, and from the panel menu select Move Pages To... and choose the new doc as the target. Delete the original blank page after the move, and save as a new .indd file and try to export.
It might also help, if neither of those works, to delete everything in the temp folders.

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