Opening my HDV project takes 45 min!!??

I have a HDV (1080i) project, which has steadily grown in size. I have captured about 20 hours of material and have made a few sequences. One sequence is 5 minutes, one is 102 min and one is 90 min.
Is this a gigantic project, because it takes FCP 5.0 45 min to open the project.
When it is open it works fine and is not slow at all.
I am running it on a G5 2.7 dual with 3 GB RAM.
I have tried to make a copy of the project file, but that doesn't help.
Then I have tried to copy everything from the project in to a new project, but the FCP crashes.
I also wanted to make a copy of the 90 min sequence, but then FCP also crashed.
Please help if you can.
Kasp

I thought that since HDV has approx. the same bit-rate as DV it wouldn't differ that much. Once the project is open, there are no problems and everything works exactly as it did, when I was editing DV.
I could live with the 45 min start-up (get a cup of coffee and checking my mail), but I am concerned about expanding the projects. Usually I make copies of sequences, when I make new cuts, so I can go back in the process, if needed.
I don't dare to add information to this project, so what should I do? I actually still have about 3 hours of material I need to capture...:-(
I wouldn't mind to go down in quality, but since my 20 hours are already captured I am concerned about the work-around to get the project "running"... I would really prefer not to delete any media (also all the unused), since I am in the middle of the editing and can't say which will be in the film and which won't.
thanks a lot:-)

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