Premiere Pro CS4 won't render my sequences

Everytime I send a sequence to Media Encoder, it just sits there. And sits and sits, etc. At the bottom it just says "Loading "Gleaner_Shoot.prproj".
I'm using a 2008 Mac with 8 cores with 16 gigs of ram.
My footage came from the Canon HV20. I have clips at both 24p and 1080i.
I'm setting up my sequences to match the clips I'm placing in them.
One thing of note is I'm really only using 3 looong clips. Since CS4 doesn't do scene detection well. I opted to instead make subclips from the long clips and use those. 2 of them are about 30 minutes long and one is nearly an hour. Could this be the problem?
Thing is, this happens even when I do a 1-minute sequence test.
It even happens when I try to use a test sequence which contains only audio.
I've tried outputting to quicktime and MPEG 2. I was careful to set the export settings to match the sources.
After a long wait, Media Encoder gives up and I get a warning icon in the status column. It says this:
" - Source File: /Users/johnstanowski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/FixThrive_1.prproj
- Output File: /Volumes/Data HD/WEBSITES/BREVITY/3d stuff/Fixthrive_1.mov
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video: 720x480, 30 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
- Audio:
- Bitrate: None
- Encoding Time: 00:01:19
Wed Dec 3 10:46:04 2008 : Encoding Failed
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Source File: /Users/johnstanowski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Thrive2.mov.prproj
- Output File: /Volumes/Data HD/WEBSITES/BREVITY/3d stuff/Thrive2.mov
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video: 720x480, 29.97 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
- Audio:
- Bitrate: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
- Encoding Time: 00:00:15
Wed Dec 3 10:50:39 2008 : Encoding Failed
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Source File: /Volumes/Data HD/WEBSITES/BREVITY/3d stuff/_Front Flash/FLASH/SOURCES/BREVITY RENDER READY.mov
- Output File: /Volumes/Data HD/WEBSITES/BREVITY/3d stuff/_Front Flash/FLASH/FLASH FILES/brevity_render_ready.flv
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video: 903x250, Same as source [fps]
- Audio: MPEG Layer III (MP3), 128 [kbps], Stereo
- Bitrate: VBR, 1000.00 [kbps]
- Encoding Time: 00:01:38
Tue Dec 16 16:44:27 2008 : Encoding Failed
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Source File: /Users/johnstanowski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Gleaner_Shoot.prproj
- Output File: /Users/johnstanowski/Desktop/THURDAY.mov
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video:
- Audio:
- Bitrate:
- Encoding Time: 00:11:07
Tue Aug 4 13:19:39 2009 : Encoding Failed
Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.
I usually use After Effects so I'm not really up on Premiere that much, but I've used it a good bit in the past and never came across this problem.
Any ideas?

Thanks. I hope I've provided enough information below.
Premiere Pro CS4 (just recently upgraded from CS3 where this session was orignally created)
Dell Precision t5400
Intel Xeon E5400 2.33 Ghz
3.25G RAM
XP Pro
Virtual Memory is tweaked per the optimization article on Adobe site:
sytem RAM + 12MB
2 x system RAM
Hardware Acceleration - disabled in display properties
project is 6 min 30 sec
no fancy edits....standard audio/video transitions only:
cross dissolve
additive dissoolve
band wipe
darn door wipe
audio x fade
audio fade out
audio fade in
VT1:
AVI video clips
BMP stills
1 JPG still
VT2:
credits roll at the end over still shot bmp
AT1:
voice over in WAV
using sidekick 4.1 to trigger the compression on AT2
EQ
de-clicker
AT2:
music backing track in MP3
using sidekick 4.1 triggered compression (ducking) from AT1
Using the default PPR4 workspace layout
Very basic edits in a 6 min training video
Using Export>Media>AVI output (compressed) and stereo. My sytem hangs in Media Encoder. I let it sit for 20 minutes before I manually stopped.
Thanks,
Kyle

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