Encore 2.0 hangs when saving project with subtitles

I produced subtitles using Media Subtitler, had to save as SAMI and take into Subtitle Workshop, and save as Encore format .txt. Import into project, they preview fine, when I go to save the project, the saving project dialog box comes up and the program stops responding. 6 or 7 times now.

for kicks, I opened the .txt file in notepad, everything looked okay, I saved as.. utf-8. Upon import into Encore the status bar on the import took a long time but it filled up, then the program stopped responding.

any ideas??

Update:
well it apparently wasn't hanging, it just took 18 minutes to save the project! I tested with three manually made subtitles on Friday and it took longer than expected to save the project, so I did it today with the full subtitle file, infreakcredible, nearly 20 minutes to save a project that has no menus, one video track, one audio track (video is about 14 minutes long) and one subtitle track. new Dell PC 3.00 Ghz, 2.99Gz dual core proc and 2.0 Gb of ram ( for the life of me I thought I had told IT I wanted 3 Gb of RAM) opening the project seems to take forever as well... workflow is gonna slow down a heck of a lot