Premiere CS4 - Crashes when Export is selected

Seems like every time I turn my attention to things other than video, and then return after a while, Premiere has a
new problem. Like it's angry at me for neglecting it.
This time it's the export feature. When I click on Export to create a video, the program just hangs up. Adobe Media Encoder does not start. Media Encoder does come up when I start it myself, but not when called from Premiere.
When I try to click on any place on Premiere during this period, I get an aggravated "beep."  It's almost as if there is a hidden alert box, but I have tried all I can think of to find it, and can't.
I hope I am not gonna have to uninstall and reinstall. I do have a life.
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd sure appreciate seeing them
Thanks.

Thanks, guys, for all the input. One of the suggestions had to do with having gone from two monitors to one. That is not the case for me. I have been using two monitors for quite some time without problems, and am still using two monitors.
As I mentioned in my original post, when the lock-up occurs, it acts like it has thrown up an invisible dialog box, awaiting my response.  It dawned on me over the weekend that if the program is doing that, then hitting either Enter or Esc should make a difference. So I tested that theory this morning, and sure enough, if I hit Enter it continues on with the Media Encoder. If I hit Esc, it unlocks the program.
So obviously there is a dialog box that is somewhere off the screen. As I also mentioned earlier, I squished all the open windows down in case the dialog box was behind one of them, and I never saw it.
My only concern is, I don't know what question I am answering when I am hitting Enter to continue with the process. Maybe someone can tell me? If it came up before, I don't remember what it was.
Ten lashes on me for not thinking of that idea sooner.
Thanks again!
Bill

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