Final cut pro crashing with slide show photos

Question

I am working with a large slide show - a few movie clips, but mostly still images from Aperture.  The photos were shot wtih a Nikon D300 in Raw, not that I think that matters much at all.
Becasue this is a slide show I am working wth short durations for the images - usually 3:14.  Most of the transitions are simply cross dissolve, but some are more complex.
I am getting again and again crashes - or the spinning color circle going to oblivion and requiring a Force Quit. 
Either can happen when adding new material, moving arround existing material, or trying to reset durations, add text, different transitions, or working wth the Ken Burns options.  Sometimes it also happens when resizing the time line zoom level.   This marvelous feature seems the most consistent way of trashing the application so I tend to leave it alone.
I may be able to work for an hour or only a few minutes.  Sometimes deleting and re-adding an image seems to help, but that may not be true - most of the time it's just simply random.   The system has 14 Gig Ram and I am using iCleanMemory now to see how much is in play.  A crash / freeze may occur with a lot or a little - usually looks like I have about 8.9 Gig in play for normal use of Final Cut and no clear change when it crashes / freezes.
Clearly the images are compatible - they are from Aperture and there is no consistency in always the same image being the issue.  
Below is the first part of the error report dump. 
Hoping someone has an idea for how to overcome this.
Appreciate the thoughts.
Cheers -
Dan
Process:         Final Cut Pro [1012]
Path:            /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.FinalCut
Version:         10.0 (179114)
Build Info:      ProEditor-179110400~1
App Item ID:     424389933
App External ID: 3491984
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [202]
Date/Time:       2011-08-17 17:57:45.775 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.1 (11B26)
Report Version:  9
Interval Since Last Report:          50891 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  2401 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Anonymous UUID:                      D1C2721F-974C-4845-BFD9-2EA572309772
Crashed Thread:  17  CVDisplayLink
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000010371ed40
VM Regions Near 0x10371ed40:
    IOKit                  00000001036ff000-0000000103700000 [    4K] rw-/rw- SM=ALI 
--> MALLOC_TINY            0000000103700000-0000000103800000 [ 1024K] rw-/rwx SM=COW 
    MALLOC_SMALL           0000000103800000-0000000103885000 [  532K] rw-/rwx SM=ZER 
Application Specific Information:
objc[1012]: garbage collection is OFF

Answer 1

Well, I filmed many of those videos in HDV (the 2x2 wall, the 5x5 wall and some of the 10x10 wall). Plus I converted the whole project to HDV because it is the way I displayed it (thru camera to Plasma TV's) and I wanted the HD space to work with and since part of my videos were HDV I figured that would be best.
Of course the DV footage is not so good quality, but when made very small for that big screen it looks fine I think. Yeah the AIC codec is great but it takes 4 times as much room, but you think that would work better hey?
I just don't want Final Cut crashing like that. I don't care if it can't play it back in real time or it takes 10 seconds to display 1 frame.
I have not used motion....would it work for what I did. Remember I used over 100 discreet video streams I had. I don't want to replicate the same layer...you get the drift.
Did you see it in youtubes HD? What did you think of the quality?