Robohelp 10 crashing when generating a CHM

I am running Robohelp 10.0.1.292 on a Windows 7 64-bit with 4GB of RAM. I have a Robohelp project with 1,969 topics from which I've successfully built three WebHelp outputs, but when I generate a CHM file using the same conditional tags as one of the WebHelp outputs, Robohelp consistently crashes on the same topic and produces two crash events in my Windows Event log:
Event #1
RoboHTML.exe
   10.0.1.292
   51493787
   mfc100u.dll
   10.0.40219.325
   4df2e0e6
   c0000005
   0005cb9b
   f64
   01cfa2a229b521c5
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 10\RoboHTML\RoboHTML.exe
   C:\Windows\system32\mfc100u.dll
   e6b660f9-0e95-11e4-b500-001d0935163c
Event #2
RoboHTML.exe
   10.0.1.292
   51493787
   ntdll.dll
   6.1.7601.18247
   521ea8e7
   c0150010
   0008482b
   f64
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   C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 10\RoboHTML\RoboHTML.exe
   C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
   ea2dc420-0e95-11e4-b500-001d0935163c
I rebooted my PC and restarted Robohelp, then applied a conditional tag to exclude the topic from the build and was able to successfully generate the CHM file. I turned off the conditional and have tried the following strategies which all result in the same two sequential Robohelp crashes:
Delete the CPD file
Delete topic from project and recreate it
Delete all the links to and from this topic
Remove topic from the TOC
Turn off conditional expressions
Delete the browse sequence
Delete the index
Change the path of the CHM file to one that is outside of the project
Shorten the output path of the CHM file to not have any spaces
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alan

That doesn't surprise me. What seems odd is that you say the crash still occurs if you remove all content from the topic. That would certainly seem to imply that something is possibly fishy with the file name.
I'd be tempted to try a slight variation on the file name and see if that works. Also try a variation on the Topic Title.
Cheers... Rick

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