Unable to Bounce to Mp3 in Logic Pro 9

Hi!
I've just upgraded to Logic 9.1 and I'm unable to bounce to mp3 regardless of what settings I use. In fact the same thing happens when trying to bounce to wave or aif.
The progress bar moves as expected, then at the point where the bounce is finished the progress par basically "empties".... Anyway, I can't use Logic * to bounce this track because Logic 9 files are not backward compatible, right? This means I cannot deliver a test of this mix to my clients as promised. Hmmmm...
Anyone else unable to bounce tracks?
Thanks...

Hi Guys!
First of all thanks for responding to my question.
Strange how it happened but, I did end up talking to one of the "Logic" guys (a design engineer) in Germany and I was able to get the mp3 (offline) bounce to work, when the audio/effects tail option was not selected. The song ends at bar 107 but I'd set the bounce range from bar 1 to bar 110, to account for the "room" that is part of the VSL samples I was using.
Incidentally, prior to talking with him I had tried both offline and realtime in both mp3 and pcm (both wave and aif). I was able to get a wave file but it sounded strange.
Funny thing was the guy didn't raise third party plugins as an issue, even though I did mention which ones I was using (Waves SSL, Stillwell, Transverb, Supa Phaser, and the Slowslimslider Side chain Compressor.). Also, I must mention that all instrument tracks were converted to audio using the Bounce track in place function (wow! what an amazing feature).
I'm just wondering if the fact I'm still on 10.5.8 might have something to do with the issue. I'll have to get more clarification on that from him. Upgrading to Snow Leopard is definitely on the cards, once I assess which of my current 3rd party plugins will work under the new OS version. In the meantime, I'll continue running Logic in 32 bit mode...
So, the bottom line is to simply set the bounce range so that the bounce will include any effects/audio tail (do not select that option in the bounce dialog) and use either real time or offline.
I hope this info helps.
Thanks again for everything guys!

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