Very slow export to quicktime movie

Its taking over an hour to export a minuet and a half QT file. FC seemed to export the file correctly at first but after the timing bar reached 100% and dissapeared, FC imediantaly went into the spining beach ball of death, then finally snapped out of that and now is "writing Video..." extreemly slow. Activity monitor and Force Quit say that FC is not responding for a few minuets but snaps out of that eventually.
This issue seems to happen randomly as I have seen it take place on three seporate machines, each with different media files. All media is formatted the same way and exported the same way. This issue does not happen every time a QT is exported, but is happening enough to be a concern.
Below is the set up I am working on.
* FCP HD 5.1.1
* Imac Intel w/ 2gb ram
* project saved on local drive
* media saved to external Graid drive via firewire 400 w/ 107.69 GB available
* shot and edited footage in project is DVCPRO HD 720p60
Exporting to a QTmovie as the following:
* 00:01:45:25 duration
* DVCPRO HD 720p60 compressor
* self contained
* frames not recompressed on export
I have tried this process excluding the external drive working 100% locally and have encountered similar slow behavior. FCP Preferences have been deleted. This issue is not a specific project dependent occurrence, as I have made test projects each of which only contained 3 media files roughly 700mb to 1.5gb in size each all shot DVCPRO HD 720p60. I do not think it is a corrupt media file issue.
Anyone have any insight as to why this is taking place?
My best guess is that it has something to do with the DVCPRO HD 720p60 codec. As a side note, I have expericensed failed renders in After Effects which used the DVCPRO HD 720p60 codec but the same project rendered fine using the Animation codec.
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Imac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I'm not very familiar with hd and it's export options, but since you don't seem to be changing anything during the export why are you using Compressor? Do you not have the option to "Export QT Movie" using "current settings".
Sorry if I'm misreading something or am off base with the HD export options.
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