Having difficulty exporting FCE sequence as Quicktime movie

I've completed a couple of short 5-6 minute FCE movies using FCE HD 3.0. I can't get them to export to Quicktime movies for placement on the desk top. Every time I try I get the "General error: Out of disk space" warning. I've got oodles of space on the hard drive. I looked through the manual and on page 853 it talks about managing disk space, stating that I might want to delete old render files. I'm not sure if this is relevant; there aren't that many render files. Anyway, I'm not at all easy about deleting render files any way; what if I want to go back and rework some clips? Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thanks.

Dan,
Use the Finder to check the space available on your system drive. Tell us exactly what size the disk is and how much space is available. ("oodles" doesn't tell us very much)
Also, are you using any external drives. If so, what are they, what size are they, how much free space is on them, and are you connecting them via FireWire or USB.
What version of QuickTime do you have on your iMac? How much RAM?

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