I have a project in Premiere Elements 2.0 that is ready to burn, but I get transcoding errors during the burn. The details are below, but I'd really like some help. This has become so frustrating that I'm ready to just quit.

I have 60 minute wmv files captured from a Digital 8 camcorder using Windows Movie Maker. I took one of the files and split it into 40 segments using ASFChop (4.1.00.3920). The segments are based on time code breaks, but because ASFChop can only accept times to tenths of a second, each segment typically has some extra frames on the front and has lost a few frames from the end. I put all of the segments into Premiere Elements 2.0 in sequential order and manually trimmed the leading extra frames. I added a simple title on top of the first segment (as Video 3), which doesn't contain anything of value. A still image appears under the title and over the first segment as Video 2. I let PrEl create a scene marker at the start of each segment, which I then manually named. The only transitions are a fade in and fade out on the title. This is not much more than a copy of the original tape with a menu and chapter points.

I modified one of the stock DVD menus by placing my own image above the background in each of the main and scene menus using Photoshop CS2. The scene menu has up to 9 scenes so there are 5 scene menus for the 40 segments.

I tried to burn the DVD to disk. It failed after doing about 10% with the message that there was a transcoding error. I shut down my firewall and virus scan to speed things up and tried again. This time it failed after doing just 7% with the same transcoding error.

I found some advice on the web that said to export the movie to AVI first so I tried that. It failed after doing about 80% of the movie.

To see if my wmv files were causing problems, I ran ASFCheck on them (without fixing problems). These errors were common:
The preroll field in the ASF is inaccurate. (on 37 of the files)
Invalid timestamp data was detected. (on 39 of the files)

I took one of the files with just the timestamp problem and let ASFCheck fix the problem. Then I ran ASFCheck again. Now that one file reports the same timestamp error plus a new one: "Extra non-index data was detected at the end of the file." Window Media File Editor showed two time stamps in the file both before and after running ASFCheck.

I played the video in PrEl using the monitor. It got a "serious error" at about the 92% mark. I restarted PrEl and successfully played through the place where the error occurred. It seems like PrEl has some problem that isn't related to the exact bit of video its playing.

My PC is 3.0GHZ with 1GB RAM. The hard drive I'm using has 60-70GB free.

As an aside, I monitored the PC (using Task Manager) while it was transcoding and again while it was exporting the movie. I watched the Total Commit grow continually (in a linear pattern) to the point where it needed the page file. At one point I saw the commit at about 1.4GB. This dropped to under 300MB after I stopped PrEl. Does PrEl have a memory leak? Any idea why it would need so much memory? I see the same behavior when just playing the video. PrEl consumes an additional 1.5MB every 4 to 5 seconds.