Why do I keep getting the rainbow spinning wheel in Garageband 11

I have the latest MBP (see specs below) and I was recording today with Garageband like I always do.  I was using my MOTU 828 MK1 8 channle audio interface with the lates compatible Lion update from Sept 2011.  I have never had any problems untill last night.
I was recording an acoustic project consiting of 4 raw 'real instrument' acoustic guitar tracks with no effects, which I had no problem recording each track by itself.  Next I recorded 1 raw 'real instrument' bass track with no effects then no problems. 
I ran into the problem when I started adding the next 2 raw 'real instrument' vocal tracks and 1 click track.  So my project has a total of 8 tracks.
When I was recording the vocals everything was going fine untli I tried to do another take and when I pressed the record button I got the rainbow spinning wheel. I let it spin for 2 mins and then went to Forc Quit and noticed GB had stopped responding.  So shut down my audio interface and re-started the MBP.  Once the MBP was up and running it could not find my MOTU audio interface or the built in audio device on the MBP.  So I shutdown the MBP for 30 seconds and turned it back on and my MOTU was recognized and I was able to select it in GB.  So I tried to record again with the same problems.  I went through this process for 3 times and the fourth time GB told my I had too many tracks.  So again I shut down my MOTU then shutdown the MBP then once MBP was up I opened GB, turned on my MOTU, selected it as the audio interface I wanted to use and then went to GB preferences and under the 'Advanced' tab I changed my audio resoultion from 'better' to 'good'. 
Needless to say that did not work and I am not able to add anymore tracks to this song. 
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I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you,
AJ

Try throwing out all GB preferences, and maybe Caches as well. Then restart GB (preferences and caches will grow back) and see if that helps.

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