Importing footage from External Drive

I have about 3 hours of footage that was shot with a Sony PD-170 to a CitiDISK hard drive as QT files. I imported all the files and did the editing, now Premier crashes all the time. I am using Premier Pro CS3 by the way. I moved the folder with the QT files in it to another location so that I could relink the clips and that is not working either. I can get some of the clip relinked but then at some random point it will crash again and that project file will not open anymore. I have to open it up from a second save file that I was lucky enough to have made. It is not crashing on one particular file. Lets say that I get it to relink clip 1 - 10 and then it crashes on clip #11. The next time I open Premier I may get it to open clips 1-5 and it will crash on #6. I have done this tons of times trying several different methods to get premier to work and I cannot get it figured out. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks
Phil

I never had any problems with the QT files when editign with Avid. Premier is supposed to support QT so I was not worried about it.
I will try on the next project to shoot with either AVI or DV on the CitiDisk but that does not help me at the moment.
Has anyone else had similar problems when trying to import a bunch of clips that you did not capture with Premier from tape? I had similar problems with a HDV shoot that I trashed the Premier project before I got to far with it and edited in Avid...
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