FCP won't render sequence or export EDL

I have a on-line quality sequence that I am trying to render. Sometimes the render progress bar comes up and sometimes it doesn't. Either way the rendering stops after about 5%. Sometimes I get a "General Error" message.
When I treid to export the EDL I was able to go through the motions in the EDL export settings box but when I selected OK the box disappeared and nothing happened. I tried "remove attributes" and took off all of my filters etc but it still didn't work. I tried a different EDL format (SONY 9100) other than CMX 3600 just in case I had too many edits for FCP to handle. Still no go.
Any suggestions. Deadline is Today at 5:00pm Atlantic time. Thanks
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) dual 2.5 GHz, Power PC G5, 3 GB SDRAM

hope this doesn't just further complicate the issue, but since I'm having the exact same problem I'll tell you what I've tried so far; maybe you'll have better luck. In my case I get to about 10% rendered before the progress bar just disappears, and then not even the 10% was actually rendered. never seen anything like it before.
for anyone trying to help out, here's what I've already done: all the colored options in the render menu are checked, I've tried re-importing the file, opening a new project, double-checking the render file permissions and even trashing the preferences.
the clip plays fine in the viewer, and also looks fine in the canvas when using the scrubber to move through the frames.
would very much appreciate any ideas I can try!

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