PE 7 Freezes while encoding AVCHD to Blu-Ray

As thte title states, I have a movie comprised mostly of AVCHD clips. It is a pretty big movie, at close to 3 hours, and I am having trouble encoding it to Blu-Ray. I have tried several things - increasing the RAM allocation to 3 GB, turning off the screensavers and power savers, turning off antivirus scanning, booting into Windows 7 64-bit with nothing but PE7 installed and trying to encode from there, etc. and it freezes up every time. The last time it got to 93% and froze. I'm at a loss at what to do next except just maybe wait until a new version of PE comes out.
I can even downconvert it to a regular DVD DL and it worked fine. At this point, I'm not sure what to do. Anyone else having this problem?
I am mainly using:
Win XP pro 32-bit
2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS
LG GBW-H20L Burner
Oh, and when it crashes, the RAM usage is only at about 40%, so I'm not running out, and there are no error messages - it just freezes.
Mark

Three hours of AVCHD (which is challenging to work with anyway) is probably too much to work with.
You don't say how much free, defragmented hard drive space you have but, unless it's a hundred or so gigabytes, that too could be a challenge.
I'd recommend doing a test run with 1 hour, or even half an hour, of video -- just to make sure everything is working.
But the fact that when you downconvert everything works fine seems to indicate that you've just overwhelmed your system.

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