Studio pro hangs on encoding

Hi
A new system just installed.
When building the project the encoding starts but more often than not hangs. This can happen at any point in the encoding (as early as 2% and as late as 80% so far) and happens with short projects of a few minutes and long ones of up to an hour. Only once has it completed an encode and that was with a 15 min project.
After quitting the project (there's no other choice, it's not going anywhere), it most often crashes and I have to force quit.
Rebooting has no effect, ie doesn't clear the problem.
I'm logged in as root at this time.
Help!
Derek

That black dialogue box is a kernel panic - something definitely wrong when you see one of those. The slightly better news is that there will be a log of what went wrong stored in your console and you can explore that to find the problem.
It sounds to me as if you have got a bit of an issue with your installation. Compressor encoding just fine is good news - whatever is wrong, you at least have a workflow... and in fact encoding outside of DVDSP is by far the better way to do things.
Have you kept up to date with software updates? Do you have any 'pro application support' patches to apply?
Check the crash log and see if anything stands out to you there (yes, I know... they are not the most informative of things to anyone except apple techs). You have already repaired permissions using disk utility, but download Onyx and use that as well - certainly run the maintenance scripts and optimize your system.

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