Project won't save

Has anyone had experience with projects not wanting to save? I mentioned the other day that I installed Windows 7 64-bit on a second partition, so now I can dual-boot with XP 32-bit or Windows 7. 7 has been working great so far except for this one project we have (that I had been working on in XP for the past three months) will not save in Windows 7.
When I choose save or hit Ctrl+s, the save dialog box comes up, but the bar never fills at all and the program stops responding. I'm not sure if this is a Windows 7 problem, or just this project acting funny for some reason. If I have to finish this project in XP, so be it, but I have noticed improvement in rendering times, etc with Windows 7 and it actually uses our 8 gigs of RAM, so I'd like to stick with it as much as I can. Like I said, other projects seem to be fine.
If anyone has any suggestions of something to try, let me know.
Thanks.
Project Specs:
CS4, 720x480, 24fps, progressive, 48k audio. All clips are uncompressed AVIs from After Effects. Audio is mostly mono 48k WAVs, with a few mp3s mixed in.

Could you have inadvertantly 'locked' the project file in Windows or Mac to prevent the file from being updated?
No. As I stated before, it works fine in Windows XP Pro 32-bit.
Try opening a new project and then importing the previous project into it. See if you can save that way.
I've tried this and it will import into a new project, but still won't save.
Thanks for your suggestions. If you think of anything else I could try, let me know. The only thing that I think could be causing the problem is that when the project loads there are a number of warnings (indicated by the yellow triangle in the lower-right corner of the project) that say something about numerous clips reporting incorrect file size, or something like that, and it can't write the metadata to them. Don't know if that would be causing this problem or not.
I think there may have been some times on this project where I updated a clip in After Effects and exported it overtop of one that was already in the Premiere project. I was told that you shouldn't do this (and have since been careful not to), but that may have been after I started this project. Would re-importing all of the clips and replacing them on the timeline correct this?
Thanks Again.

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