Importing clips when building DVD is taking forever

I recently got encore 2.0 as burning my films onto DVD was becoming a serious pain. I have created a 30 minute film with a total size of around 7gB.. Once I finished my project I went to build the DVD, checked the project and set it going.. only to find that 4 hrs later it hadnt got past importing the first clip. The 'data to be written' is 1.60 gB which isn't really that much. The transcoding is slow but eventually finishes, the problem occurs when the program comes to import the clip and the progress bar just keeps on filling up then starting from about half way again. I thought at first it would just take a while, but after reading the other messages 4 hours seems a bit long for a 30 minute film....
Can anyone suggest a reason why its getting stuck on importing the clip?
My computer is relatively new and highish spec.. Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, 1 Gig of RAM, 18x Sony DVD RW drive.

Thanks Jeff
Sorry I have not got back to you sooner, I've looked at the project and files and there isn't anything like a DivX codec, all the files were compatible with each as far as I remember, and the encore project only has the two clips and menu's created using encore. I'm not sure about the first question however its been a couple of years since I had that computer but I dont recall anything like that, I may be mistaken though, as I wasn't really aware of the specific components etc then.
I'm logged on as the administrator, its the only user account on my computer. Hope this helps in some way.
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