General Error Issue: FCP 7 on my Mac Book Pro 10.6.8 2.53 GHZ 4GB

I'm working on a lengthy project, multiple timelines. Out of nowhere I started getting a "General Error" message on playback in a specific area of the timeline. I trash preferences, trash render preferences (making the timeline now red), and now the "General Error" pops up everywhere on the timeline on playback and render.
After trying everything I could think of:
1. resetting scratch disks
2. trashing preferences
3. trashing render preferences
4. repairing hard drives
5. Converting to earlier saved versions of the project.
6. Re installing FCP
7. Finally, I tried creating a new project and dropping the original media in and recutting (matching timecode) and even this popped up the general error.
I'm cutting converted RED one footage and 16mm footage converted to quicktime files. I am only using about 1/2 of the harddrive space on my comp, and the scratch disks are currently set to a 2TB external G Drive with 500GB left.
This project has existed for over 9months that I've been tinkering with it and all of a sudden this issue appears. I find it strange.
I wasn't super organized in setting up the project (my first large film and first film ever on fcp), and the scratch disks have moved around a lot, etc. But, I've never moved the original clips, and it doesn't seem to be an issue of relinking the clips either. They don't seem to be offline at all.
The format of is super wide 2240 x 960 on the red footage and super square for the 16mm footage (I think 4x3)
Let me know if you have ANY thoughts/ideas/help or if you need additional info.

hi thanks a lot
I had 4 launching items in   startup - itunes, eyetv, a printer and something else. Emptied that.
Now have activity monitor open:
not sure what CPU cycles means but:
the biggest discrepance   between real mem and virtual mem are:
121     Quick Look Helper   xxxxxxx    0.0    6    5.4 MB [ real ]     Intel (64 bit)    542.5 MB    [viritual]
what is this?
181     Microsoft Word    xxxxxxxx    0.6    6    109.0 MB    Intel    87.1 MB
174     Firefox    xxxxxxxx    1.1    22    316.0 MB    Intel (64 bit)    233.3 MB
105     launchd    xxxxxxxxxx    0.0    2    980 KB    Intel (64 bit)    38.1 MB
what is this?
116     pboard   xxxxxxxx    0.0    1    844 KB    Intel (64 bit)    18.6 MB
what is this?
CPU usage: [now]
user: 5.27
system: 2.75
idle: 92.36
threads: 295
processes: 67
what are these ?!?!?
SYSTEM MEMORY:
free: 2.34gb
wired:678mb
acive: 841mb
inactive:179mb
use: 1.66gb
vm size: 133.15gb
page ins:422.9mb
pages outs: 0 bytes
swap used: 0 bytes
does any of this help figure it out ?
thanks again

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