General Error

I am running FCP 6.0.4 on the new Macbook Pro using leopard. and all of sudden when exporting a movie, when its like 50-60% done it stops and it says "General Error" and it's been doing that everytime i export a movie project. I've exported a lot of videos before this happened and now dont know whats wrong. can anyone help me out?

okay well i tried exporting it again using a different output format and still the same thing. SO...when i deleted the render folder it re-rendered it again and i found where it stopped...it happened to be a corrupted JPG, cause i was showing a sequence of JPG's, and so i deleted that JPG and rendered the rest and vhola it worked...well thnx for the heads up about the corrupted file....woo hoo!!!!

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