Error out of memory when opening an edited sequence

Don't know if this is any use I was attempting to open a hour long sequence in fcp
(I'm only on 6.05 but anyway....) I kept on getting an error out of memory. I did the obvious things opened a new project and put the sequence in it didn't work. Eventually I found that if you open a new sequence and drop the one that won't open into it (this will nest it) and then double click on the nested sequence it will open the original sequence without a memory issue....
Sloppy bit of code there somewhere!!!
Justin

After updating to FCP 703 and osx 10.6.4 a lot of Memory issue has been solved.

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