Opening .toast files causes my MAC to become unresponsive

Hi,
My Macbook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010 - 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 - 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)) has recently developed an extremely frustrating problem, it occurs whenever I try to open a .toast file, whenever I do my MAC just hangs and becomes so slow it is unusable and I end up having to power off manually.
I am a picture researcher so I often need to grab stills from my DVD collection. The way I like to work (which has always been the most effective and reliable means of doing my job up until last weekend) is to rip my DVDs, compress the TS folder to a single-layer DVD sized image file using Toast Titanium. I would then open the .toast file and transfer the compressed audio and video TS folders to a folder on my external hard drive. This has always been the best way for me to maintain a balance between image quality and file size.
Since last weekend however, when I was ripping and compressing about 15 discs toward the end of the session my MAC was unable to open .toast files without hanging for ages and becoming unresponsive.
I have since upgraded to Lion, upgraded to the latest Toast Titanium and upgraded my Little Snitch as I thought this could be causing the problem, but nothing has helped I still have the same problem.
If anybody has experienced this, can shed any light on what is happening and hopefully offer a solution to the problem I would be most grateful.
Thanks is advance,
Michael.

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