I get the color wheel of death ...

when trying preview my Motion 5 project.  I imported a .psd file with layers and used keyframes to move the layers around the y axis and z axis.  First motion crashed; I lost an hours work.  I finished the project, but now, I get the colorwheel of death when trying to preview the file in Motion 5 and when try to open the file directly.  Is there a remedey for this problem. 

iMac 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Running 10.7.1

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