FCP quits during MPEG2 high quality encode in compressor

I am trying to create MPEG 2 of FCP project using the 90min Hig Quality 2 pass setting. When I do, about half way through the encoding FCP quits causing the encoding to fail. The strange thing is if I drop back to fats encode 1 pass it seems to work. Am I going to lose much quality by only using the fast encode? Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Is it a compressor issue or FCP?
Any help would be great cause I don't want to compromise quality of my DVDs if I can help it.

Rob,
Can you tell us a bit more about how you are going about this.
For example, are you doing this in compressor or in DVDSP?
What is the original material?
How long is the original material?
and so on and so forth ...
cheers
x

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