Problems exporting OMF from FCP 6

I've been trying to export an omf of a 40 min dvcprohd sequence to hand off to my sound mixer.
He needs the omf with handles of at least 20 seconds. When I try to export it I get the message telling me that the file will exceed 2GB and is not supported. I have tried exporting only a very small part of it (like the first minute of the first four tracks) and if I have 20 second handles it wont do it.
Any suggestions?

There may be something else involved, but there is a file size limit on fat32 formatted drives. What is the format of the drive you're trying to export to. Also, I seem to remember that you can export an omf with either the media separate or embedded. Separate might solve the problem.
Also 20 second handles seems ridiculous to me. Most omf's I've exported for sound mixes have at most a couple of seconds of handles.

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