Migrating Forms 61 to 10g - Forms Builder Crashing

We are migrating from Forms 6i to 10g. The application works on a HP-UX box, and since we do not have the necessary setup done in the Unix box yet, we are trying to compile the forms in Windows before-hand to see if we can pre-empt some errors.
I have written a batch command to compile the 6i forms in windows (Windows XP) by invoking the 10g Forms Builder.
While it works like a charm for most of the forms (we have around 500 forms), there are a few forms for which the compiler/builder simply crashes. The .err file created for this form has absolutely nothing, it is a 0KB file.
When I try opening such forms in Forms Dev 10g, and then compile them, the Dev crashes. It gives no indication of the error.
By crashing I mean that windows throws the error message saying "Application has to be closed. Send error report: yes/no"
Can someone please tell me if you faced such a problem, and how you went about solving it?

Try a Compile All ( Ctrl - K ), then Ctrl - T.
Not sure about XP, but in Vista, the 10g Builder and batch compiler will crash if a PLL Library is not available when the form is compiled.
Make sure the PLL Library is available, and all its objects compile in the 10g setup.
If that does not help, then try a semicolon-to-semicolon replace all, then save the fmb. Then restart the Forms Builder, and open the fmb again, and try compiling.
Here is an old link describing the issue:
Re: FMB size shrinks dramatically

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