FCE freezing computer.

I'm using FCE 1 and DVD Studio Pro 2.
Both apps are installed on my boot volume, a hard drive on a PCI controller and my scratch disk is a hard drive on my onboard IDE-ATA socket. I save project files to the scratch disk volume.
When I try to export a sequence to MPEG-2 with Quick-Time Pro, the computer usually freezes before a sequence over 20 minutes long is finished encoding. The only thing I can do then is a hard restart.
I can export to a DV stream and use Compressor, but that makes extra work for man and machine, as well as taking longer to start up a conversion to MPEG-2 for my computer to work on while I'm at work.
At first, I was getting freezes on playback.
I had initially selected the wrong volume as a scratch disk upon installation after my last restore, so I deleted FCE and all FCE app-support, cache and preference files in both library and home/library directories and re-installed and re-serialized the software. This helped some, but it only took me to my current state of affairs.
I suspected it may be vid-card related, but I've tried using a Radeon 9000 Pro card and my current G4-modified Radeon 9600 Pro, (both eBay hardware left over from a failed Quicksilver salvage project) as well as the stock Rage 128 Pro. Same situation.
Anything else I can try?

Processor upgrades are not supported by Apple with video editing applications.

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