Export to PDF from Book file is freezing

I'm trying to export books to PDF from the ID CS6 book panel.
Shorter books are exporting with no problem, but some of the longer ones are hanging up around page 380 or so. The Generating PDF dialog appears and shows that the export process is stalling; when I open the Force Quit Applications window, it shows "InDesign (not responding)".
I have a brand new computer, and have no other applicaitons running when trying to export, so the processing power should not be an issue.
Is there something I can do to solve this problem?
I need to use the Export Book to PDF function to get the TOC links to function properly in the entire exported PDF.
Thanks in advance, this is a huge problem, and has never happened in the past.

Thakns Peter, I had seen this thread, but it doesn't really address my issue. I've exported individual chapters from the book file, all with success, so I know there isn't a file corruption issue. The problem seems to do more with memory allocation/usage.
I have tried: quitting and then immediately exporting the file, and even rebooting and then relanuching and exporting. Both of these allow me to get a few pages farther along, but still not through the entire book.
I remember back in the day there used to be a setting for how much RAM/dis c space was allocated to a certain applicatino (I knowm it was a long time ago). I didn't know if there might be something like this hidden somewhere

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