Impossible open project Premiere CS3

Hello, sory for my english, I´m from Czech republic.
I have got a big problem. I can´t open project in Adobe Premiere CS3(update 3.2.0). I worked on this project more than 5 mounts. During loading the project Premiere show message "p:\drusilla\pro\3.2.0\mediacore\mediafoundation\ap i\inc\Keyframe/Keyfrarr.. and than crash.
I tryed everithing I know: Autosaves not work, import to new project, reinstal program and windows, open offline....
Project is very big - 97 Gb.
I have Windows XP Pro SP2 with CZ lokalizacion. Smaller projects work fine, without any problem.
Please help me, Johny A.

Johnny A,
Lets do a review:
You had a Project that has been worked on for five months and all worked fine. The Project opened in PP perfectly over that time. You then recorded a WAV into PP, edited some more, and now your Project will not open, and you get the error message. Did the Project function properly, after you recorded the WAV, before you Saved and shut down? If not, what seemed to be happening then?
You have attempted the following:
1.) Open Project in PP - result does not Open and gives error message, followed by crash
2.) Open all AutoSaves - result does not Open and gives error message, followed by crash
3.) Started a new Project with the same specs. as your old and tried to Import the original Project into it - result does not Import and gives error message, followed by crash
[Good things to try, BTW]
Does the info in this link help:
Eddie Lotter, "import failure - error message 1231" #1, 11 Jan 2009 1:19 pm
Has anything changed on your P:\ drive? What are the specs of your P:\? How is it connected, internal, external FireWire, USB, etc.?
One thing that you might try would be to Move all of your Assets to a new location, especially the WAV file(s). Try to Open your Project again. As you have hidden the Assets from PP, it should ask you to locate them again. If you kept the same folder structure, but just hid the structure, you should be able to help PP locate the files and let it load them up again. Id make sure that I hid the WAV file(s) even further away in the folder structure, so you can *possibly* get the rest of your Project loaded, and just Offline the WAV file(s) for now. Then, do a Save_As, or Save_As_a_Copy (without the WAV file(s). If you get the Project back to that state and Open, then try to re-Link the WAV file(s). Have a look at:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b78a80/7 if you have any questions about Save, Save_As etc., and why/when you might choose one, over the others.
Last, there is a freeware program, XML Wrench. It can do a lot of detective work on your .PRPROJ file. Ive only used it sparingly, but others here can step you through its operation. First, however, I would download and install it. Run your PRPROJ though it and report back with what it says. Usually, a corrupt file will have bad header info. If this is the case, others can possibly direct you with way to repair that header info. There could also be some other problem, that folk here will recognize and help you cure.
Good luck,
Hunt

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>I tried to installed a new verion of C++ library for 64bit
PPro is a 32-bit application. I'm not sure how you expect it to use a 64-bit library.
Go back to a 32-bit operating system where you
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