Subtitle semi\colon question & subtitles take forever to remove from project

I have been having problems with two NTSC DVDs. The subtitles would line up perfectly in Subtitle Workshop put upon importing into Encore (CS3) they would lose sync after about 10 minutes or so. Turns out I was looking in the wrong area (at my MPEG files). On a whim I remembered reading somewhere about replacing the ":" in the subs with ";" and it worked fine!
But I don't know why it worked? I always thought only PAL subtitles needed to be in ";" ??
I went back to all of the subtitle files I did work with on prior projects and they had ":" as well? Those were NTSC how come they did'nt give me problems?
On a related note when I had to "remove subtitles" in CS3 it would take about 4-5 minutes before they cleared. It was faster to shut it down and re-open. Is it a CS3 thing? I know Encore 2 did not do that.

You have it backwards.
NTSC subtitles must use the semi-colon (
;) delimiter because it's drop-frame. PAL timecode is not drop-frame so it always uses the colon (
:) delimiter.
I'm guessing you didn't see problems before because either the video wasn't long enough, or you weren't watching as carefully? Hard to say, but Encore (and other DVD authoring apps that support subtitles) has always behaved in this way.
I'm confused by your related note. You mean to delete a subtitle track takes 4-5 minutes?

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