Sudden slowdown / sluggishness with FCP Capture...

I need some help troubleshooting, gang... I've tried to capture hdv footage the last two days with the same result: after going into log and capture, and hitting "capture now", there's about a minute delay with the spinning beachball before capture begins.
It is acting almost like I'm close to being out of room on the hard drive(s) but I have over 100gb on both my media drive, and the program drive. I have nothing else running, and I'm up to date with 10.4.10, fcp 6.0.1 and QT 7.2 . This is on a mac pro 2.6GHZ with 2GB of RAM. I tried capturing dv, and that does the same thing. I also tried using the internal drive to capture to rule out an issue with the external drive. Same result. I have a feeling it started with one of the updates to either fcp or QT. if anyone has had the same problem, or can send me down the troubleshooting path. that would be great.

This is happening to me today as well. Has it got something to do with 10.6.7 I have just updated and now I seem to be having the same problem
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