FCP 6.04 spinning its wheels on simple render and driving me round the bend

Hello all:
So everything was going swimmingly... normal work-flow, nothing weird, not asking it to render Hi-Def NTSC anamorphic into SD SECAM 4:3 with a twist of lemon. Just plain old simple rendering of basic effects and filters, etc.
So, for some reason my Mac in league with FCP has decided that these are arduous tasks. FCP spins its wheels (you know, the psychedelic spinning circle that makes you immediately go, "oh f##k!"
After about 20 seconds of teeth clenching spinning it suddenly wakes up and goes, "oh, well that's not so hard..." and then completes the render in 2 seconds.
This is has not happened before... but been going on now for about 2 hours.
What is going on? Please help! I am on the usual crunch deadline... and this is driving me NUTS!

Better post more about your system...
Post the exact versions of:
OS
FCP
QuickTime
system specs
Scratch disk configuration... is it local? etc.?
Also post the exact format you've captured and are working with.
Also let me know how you got to the versions of OS and FCP... did you perform a clean installation lately? i.e., rebuilt your startup disk from the ground up? One thing that can cause havoc is "upgrading" instead of "erase and install" of a new OS or version of studio...
The odd thing is that it spins but renders it OK anyway? weird indeed, never seen this, but sure want to find out why!
Jerry

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