Why has exporting a film from Final Cut Express (FCE) HD (3.5) taking 30 times longer and file size increased by 30X?

Exporting a 75 minute film from Final Cut Express (FCE) HD(3.5) through Quick Time Movie is now taking over an hour instead of the 2minutes it used to take.  The FCEMovie file is now 14 GB instead of the 1 GB it used to be.  In both cases Self Contained was notchecked when exporting.  I havetried trashing the Preference file to no avail.  There was a message when opening the FCE project that 140render files were offline.  Ichecked the box to forget them and also did a Render All Both and Render Only Mixdownbefore exporting.  I had thisproblem a few days ago and solved it by reinstalling FCE.  However after two days the problem hascome back.  As far as I know I didnot change anything in FCE or the system when the export times and file sizeincreased.

I think you are correct about the longer version being a self-contained movie except that I did not check that option when exporting.  However, I have opened another project of the same size and that one can be exported in the usual time, the problem must reside with the particular project.  A clue is that to regain some disk space I deleted the render folder for several projects including the one I am having trouble with.  Also when iI opened that project I got a message that files were disconnected and I think they were render files.  I did re-render before exporting and that is when the file length increased by a factor of 13, even though it was not supposed to be self-contained.  FCE is working OK with other projects when I export them.  I am still puzzled.

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