Tracks go silent half way through song?

okay I have quite an old MAC (450 mhz power PC G4 1.38 gb sdram)
so I know Im making it work like a tired mule when i use GB3 + Jam pack!
but what has happened here TWICE! is I will have a 13 track song (5 vocals, 1 guitar and the rest software instruments) and as i tinker with levels etc the end result is that at the exact same point on the timeline the tracks just go silent? the player head still moves along as if it is playing something...but no sound? where as they had previously been fine...so the data WAS there before?
to make the song play (in work mode) i have to lock each track...and every time I alter it i must unlock and then relock (which is very time consuming...but I realise I am trying to drive an old Morris Minor down the Auto bahn...so to speak!?)
so can anyone shed some light... is it just my computer not being able to cope with the workload? or have i lost all this work : (
one other point was when i tried to open the file and the program got stuck trying to open the file, so I had to Force quit...could i have deleted some of the data there?
450 Mhz power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

no the master volume curve is off and i have played each track as solo and they all go silent at 2:34
I hate to think but I m assuming when it got stuck opening that day it probably got to 2:34 and then when i forced quit it erased everything after
but the wave patterns are still there???
i have tried unlocking all the rtacks then relocking...but to no avail
grrrr...frustrating
(ironically the song itself is called "frustration"..maybe this is some divine sign)
450 Mhz power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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no the master volume curve is off and i have played each track as solo and they all go silent at 2:34
I hate to think but I m assuming when it got stuck opening that day it probably got to 2:34 and then when i forced quit it erased everything after
but the wave patterns are still there???
i have tried unlocking all the rtacks then relocking...but to no avail
grrrr...frustrating
(ironically the song itself is called "frustration"..maybe this is some divine sign)
450 Mhz power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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no the master volume curve is off and i have played each track as solo and they all go silent at 2:34
I hate to think but I m assuming when it got stuck opening that day it probably got to 2:34 and then when i forced quit it erased everything after
but the wave patterns are still there???
i have tried unlocking all the rtacks then relocking...but to no avail
grrrr...frustrating
(ironically the song itself is called "frustration"..maybe this is some divine sign)
450 Mhz power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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