Premiere cs4 gets stuck opening projects

Today all of a sudden Premiere started getting stuck while openning projects. These are all projects I've been working on for a long time. I found some posts regarding this issue but they all focus on fixing that particular project. But when this problem happens to me almost all of my projects have the problem. Most of them get stuck "conforming files". A few of them don't give any conforming or similar messages and just freeze in a way I can't do anything. Every 4-5 computer restarts all these projects open and work fine. But 2-3 times opening projects later I run into the same problem, again with all projects.I try importing a problematic project into a new one, the problem doesn't go away. I cleaned the media cache, temp files, didn't make a difference.
Yesterday morning I got the newest Windows updates, and installed a second video card (it uses the same driver as the other video card) to connect my 3d monitor, it works fine and yesterday I worked all day on Premiere and didn't have these problems till this morning. Also yesterday I installed the newest DirectX to make 3d function properly with the new video card. Don't know if any of these can be relevant.
My setup is
Vista 64-bit
Operating system on 120GB flash RAID drive
Projects on 600GB second drive
Video files on 2TB third RAID drive
Disks are half way used and defragmented often.
12GB RAM
Thanks in advance!
Yas

As John T. points out, it can take time. Right now, The Masters (Augusta, GA, USA) is being played, so some are probably in front of their TV's, and not reading the forum.
However, one recent post to the PrPro forum was answered in about 30 sec., and then within a minute, four other replies came in. Now, that was an easy one, or so we hope.
I know that Harm Millaard, the hardware guru is still up late and on the forum (from Amsterdam, NL), so maybe he has an answer for your original thread.
Good luck, and see you in the in the PrPro forum.
Hunt

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