Opening previously good CS3 project hangs at 79%

Hi, we have a fairly straightforward project that has been fine up until now.
When attempting to open, Encore CS3 (in CS3... no upgrade) goes through the process of finding the various assets, apparently successfully.
Then it just hangs at 79%.
Is there a repair/troubleshooting process I can go through? I tried opening the project file in a text editor but it's clearly not XML like a Premiere Project!
Matthew P
Brisbane, Australia

Darn.  Not being able to type at login sounds like an issue mine has every so often, although if you don't log in RIGHT AWAY on mine, you have to force it down and restart because when you type, it pinwheels and never stops.  Mine also hasn't been able to restart or shutdown so I haven't been able to apply updates.

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