Problem exporting as reference movie

I have a 90 min timeline that I am trying to export as a reference movie. I have done this before with no problem. everything is rendered in the timeline. I am working in SD DV NTSC.
The reference movie takes over an hour to export and the file size is about 14gig... so it seesm to be exporting as a self contained movie. Self-ciontained is UN-checked. I'm using current settings, audio & Video, chapter markers.
The video and render files are on a WD 500gig external drive.
I've tried exporting to the external drive and to the computer desktop. Same issue.
I've trashed FCP prefs with no luck.
I got a new laptop this week... I migrated the files from my G5 to the lap top. Same issue on both machines.
G5 dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 3 gig RAM

yes.... the timeline is completely rendered... and the files are located on my WD 500gig external Harddrive.
It appears to be a reference movie. The 14 gig file I have created and saved on the desktop will not play when the external drive is ejected from the computer.
I had a major FCP crash last week working on a project with the desk top G5. I was not able to get the program to reopen. I read here on the boards to trash the prefs. and that worked to get FCP to reopen.
This week I got a new macbook pro. I migrated from the g5 and it seesm waht ever problem I encountered on the G5 has migrated to the macbook. I am re-installing FCP fresh today to see if that solves the problem on the macbook.
This also seesm to have messed with the compresor program. I have several (10-13gig) one hour SD video files captured (raw) that I sent to compressor last week to export as QT7 download 300Kbps. Those files took a reasonable amount of time. NOw this week I try again and the same files are taking over 6 hours to compress.
I wonder if I have a larger overall computer issue here.
Thank for the help so far!
G5 dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 3 gig RAM

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