FCP very slow on just one specific project

Hi,
I'm using FCP 5.1.4 on a Pwermac G5 2 GHZ, 3 GB RAM. I have edited on this for over a year without any problems. Now, one particular project is giving me problems. I get the rainbow wheel every time I do something even as simple as placing a still photo in the timeline.
I am in unlimited RT, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, aspect ratio 3:2, Lower (even) field dominance, NTSC - CCIR 601 Pixel Aspect Ratio, 29.97 editing time base.
I have captured in DVNTSC 48K and that is the same as my sequence preset.
Video Processing: Always Render in RGB
All of my media is on one external hard drive. I have saved my project file to my internal hard drive.
I was editing a different project yesterday from the same hard drive, using the same settings and had no problems. but this one project is the only one I have had difficulty with. It's ridiculous. I can't even drag a still photo into the timeline without getting the rainbow wheel.
Help? Please? I need to finish this project!
Thanks!

Hi:
I opened your post with that first idea: too big stills. And in the end of all your posts I found it !
First, forget about dpi in video: just think in pixels.
You must size your still just as big as you need to zoom in and take as reference size your project settings. I mean, for SD NTSC a 100% is 720x480. If you need to zoom to double size a part of the image, you don't need anythiung bigger that 1440x560. Do you get the idea?
Any extra pixels you give your image beyond what you JUST need, you're only giving extra work to FCP with no advantage in quality. Worst, FCP os very bad rescaling!
OK. If you need so big images in your project and don't to deal with the extra processor work while editing, just create a project and an individual sequence for each still you need to animate. Export ecah animation with your final project settings (self contained if you want) and use them in a new project. The exported "sequences" will behave as standard video with no so much work for your computer.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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