Thanks guys for the feedback and clarification. We talked about Vista today given the ram limitations and CS4’s resource hogitude.
We did a complete system reformat and installed only CS4 before the first time using it.
I did crash the media encoder today by simply selecting the audio check box in a windows media item in teh queue, although this was whilst the computer was having a meltdown already so who knows.
On the plus side, the media encoder is a cool tool – I can load it up with sequences then let it rip overnight, which is how I use Squeeze and how I used to use Premiere 6.5 batch.
Also, the ability to make any sequence go full screen on the 2nd monitor is an improvement over having to first setup the project that way in CS3.
Mike