Premiere CS4 will not load project

Hi! I've been looking around the forums for an answer to my problem, but so far I haven't found one. Here's my problem:
I've been working on a Premiere project for a couple weeks now, and I've constantly been having problems.  It crashes often, and sometimes does not respond. This I do not mind, I just save whenever I do something.
Yesterday night, I tried to open my project.  I opened it, and the little box popped up that said, "Load Project...".  The loading bar went all the way to the end and then froze. In the bottom left corner, it had said that all media was loaded. I pressed cancel and then Premiere froze.  I then exited Premeire and tried to reopen, but the same thing happened. I had read on one post to try to turning off your computer and then turning it back on. So, I went to bed.
Today, the project was working perfectly until now.  This time, the loading bar only loaded about 75%, even though at the bottom it said that all media was loaded.  I re-started my computer, but it didn't help.  I pressed shift, but it didn't help.  And the last time an auto-save file was created was yesterday, and I have made a lot of progress since then.  Does anyone have a solution to this?
Frozen!
I have 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium on an HP computer with and Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8400 2.66 GHz.  The RAM is 6 GB. I don't know if this information will help you, but just in case.

I spent the day researching why my PrPro CS4 project hangs at about 80% loaded all of a sudden.  Bill was right on in his suggestion to search for a corrupt or bad asset.  His technique to solve the problem did not work at all though. Going back to a perviously auto-saved version of the project does not help much unless the project file itself is the bad asset. The project once saved under a new name still won't load in my experience. Also, if you try to export some part of the assets within the project, Adobe Media Encoder CS4 will fail to encode as well (another symptom of the bad asset hiding in your project workplace and sequence time-lines.
In my case, it turned out to be an avi movie asset that I changed from "avi movie with audio" to "avi movie without audio" outside of adobe premiere (using after effects cs4 in my case).  So now the project thought there should be audio, but the audio was now removed.
To find the bad asset was pretty easy: First go back to a project version that you can load, then click on each asset in the project workspace area and try to copy the asset using the menu: edit -> copy.
If the asset is bad, a goofy error message will pop up including a source code file name [this has to be yet another bug in premiere to crash like this].
If the asset is good, the copy will report no error, so move on to the next asset, repeat until you find one or all bad assets.
To solve the bad asset load problem,re-import the asset under a new name. Go to your sequence, right mouse click on the asset in the time line, use the "replace with clip -> bin" command. Last step, select the new replacement asset from your bin.
Best regards,
Ron Fredericks
LectureMaker, LLC

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    “You can still use it one all of your Macs.  If you get an invalid certificate message just set your Mac's clock to sometime before early 2011 and run the installer.  After you're done reset the time back to the correct time.” He added this comment:
    “It began after iDVD and iWeb were discontued and they were dropped from the Apple Store. All I can think of is the certificate was set to expire after a certain time period after the intitial iLife disc was released.
    I've been able to use the installer even without setting back the date.  I just clicked on the Continue button and it would work as expected.  For some it would not continue unless the date was set back.”
    The latest anorexic iMacs just announced do not even include a CD drive! Proof positive that Apple virtually prohibit the use of DVDs - although the newly announced Mac Minis do include a Superdrive.
    Yet, they still include iMovie! Heaven alone knows or understands what you are supposed to do with your newly edited masterpiece - except make a low quality version for YouTube?

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