The infamous render question

I've read several posts concerning rendering and so far none of the answers have helped me. I have both red and yellow bars over my timeline so I know I need to render. When I go to render, the render bar pops up for a second then goes away (and doesn't render anything.) EVERYTHING in the Sequence > Render menu is checked.
Why won't it render?

Just so we can knock out the obvious, have you checked all render types in "Render All" and "Render Selection"? If you don't select anything and try to render a selection you may get the result you're getting, although a quick check in FCP 5.1 on my machine started to render the whole timeline.
On another track try the "auto render" feature in the "User Preferences / General". Turn it on and see if your video renders.

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