Encore CS3 Crashing on Build

Hi All,

I have searched the forums and have seen several similar posts, but nothing that matches exactly and nothing with a true solution.

I am trying to build a demo reel for my agency. We have both PC and Mac systems in-house, all with CS3. Our Macs also have the FCP suite.

I am trying to build the DVD with Encore because of the added bonus of the Flash output. I only want to switch my project to DVDSP as an absolute last resort.

I built my DVD on a MacBook Pro with:
OSX 10.5.7
2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB RAM

I have all the latest adobe updates and system updates.

The DVD is big - almost full size. Whenever I try to build, the system gives me a spinning wheel of death (the little colorful wheel thing) for about 30 seconds and then crashes. Every time. I have tried burning to disc, folder, etc.

All the files have already been encoded to mpg, so Encore shouldn't have to be transcoding anything, I don't think.

I have used Preference Manager to clear my prefs and then restarted but no luck.

Nothing seems to work.

Anyone have a solution here? Or maybe some additional troubleshooting steps?

Much appreciated,

Mike