Final Cut Express hanging during renders

Hey all,
I was hoping someone could help with this problem because I have no idea what's going on- I run FCE 4.0.1 on a 2.6 GHz macbook pro with 4GB RAM.
I've used the program for two years and I've never had a problem rendering my videos, but suddenly when I render, things go exceedingly slow, and the render time increases (sometimes to hours) rather than decreases. Finally the program gives up and crashes.
I've changed render disks (both external hard drive, and the internal), I've changed render settings, and I've even tried to re-render old movies, but those won't render either. I ran disk utility and the disks are good.
I re-installed FCE, updated it, and still no dice...I use Boris Continuum Complete effects and reinstalled that as well...Still no rendering.
To further complicate matters, sometimes the rendering window pops-up on the screen and disappears immediately. When this happens, I have to switch between safe RT and unlimited RT to get it to begin one of its never-ending renders cycles.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated...
Eric

Thanks for the reply-
I'm not sure which sequence settings I should check, but I'm pretty sure I never changed them from the defaults (I'm not really a video guy...)
That being said- my clips are pretty basic. I use text clips from LiveType, ArtText or Boris Continuum (which admittedly is a rendering hog), and then I use some still images which are all png files. I make short educational videos and I've used the same type of effects and clips in all of them, but this is the first time I've run into this rendering issue. Like I mentioned, I tried to render some of my old videos which used to render perfectly, and they no longer render...
I checked activity monitor - when I began the render it was very high- like 110% of CPU, and then when the render began to slow down and fail the FCE activity went to about 80% of CPU. I wasn't sure what other info to check on the activity monitor...
Anyway, I've still had no luck...
Thanks for any ideas.

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