Vista - Premiere Elements crashes

I have Abode Premier Elements 4.0 and it crashes when I try burning the movie I made.
My project has .avi file(DV format), pictures(with motion and zoom effects),titles, and dvd menus. Vista comes up with error about 26% of the through encoding even if it is not to a dvd, I can't even export the file. I tried reinstalling quicktime and PE 4 itself, but to no avail. The same project has worked in the past, but stopped working after I added titles and special effects to pictures. And when I try to burn the file that worked in the past it also crashes. I could not try it on an other machine because the files are scatter around 4 disks.My system is as follows:

Operating System: Windows Vista
Browser: Mozilla
Motherboard: I took the motherboard from old HP system, so all I know about it is it is an Asus something
Video capture card / driver: Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
Capture from Deck, Webcam or Camcorder?: Camcorder
Has it ever worked? If so, what's changed? (provide comments in description field): Yes
Same results with different file?: Yes
Same results with different computer?: Not Applicable
Recent System Hardware or Software change?: No

Only thing I can suggest is to try and try again - Windows Movie Maker (built into Vista) crashed 5 times on me when I tried when helping in another thread in here but amazingly worked flawlessly the 6th time.

I haven't tried it again, so I cannot say one way or another if the first five failures or the 6th success was a fluke....

Thanks , but I got it to work by resizing the pictures I had to 1000 x 750