Rendering Video Previews increases number of videos

Well,
I have a clip that is about 2 minutes long and has 57 video clips, about 10 cross-dissolves and a simple preset look from magic bullet 1.4
When I hit render a few hours ago it said "Rendering 1 of 57 Video Previews" and "Rendering Frame 1 of 2889".....so I took a nap.
Four hours later it's still rendering....and now it sais "Rendering 5786 of 18759 Video Previews" and a similar astronomic Number in Frames.
I found out that it happens when I select the area of my entire clip and hit "Render entire work area" to even render the many yellow parts of the sequence.

I have the same problem as this original post. I have taken a sequence that was incorrectly created using 29.97 instead of 25p and copied and pasted the entire project into a new sequence that is 25p.
I have fixed all the keyframes for the audio which did not come over in the copy and paste and then went to render the timeline. I first tried to render just a short section as a work area so I could see if my rolling credits were smooth. But the render is constantly creating more and more video previews. Far mare than the project has. Estimated time left says 00:00:00 and the render bar never go green past the first 100 frames or so.
I have left it to render for hours just to see if it finishes, but the video preview count just grows and grows.
It does the same whether I render the whole project, or just the work area.
Using Premier CS5 on windows 7 64 bit. Build 5.01
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This first post was over 2 months ago, I wonder if any Adobe folks have an idea of what this problem is?

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