Yes, I meant "Check Project," and clean up links etc.
I have had success using Premiere to make 3 of my five videos as an *.avi. The sizes were 341 MB, 662 MB, and 1.95 GB; however, the biggest Premiere sequence is about 4x as big as the one that resulted in a 1.95GB avi file. It must be too big for an *.avi file since that crashed.
I tried, as suggested by you, I just tried to make an MPEG2-DVD out of this larger sequence. When I came back to it after about 45 minutes or so, I found that it had crashed. I was unable to get a screen shot of the errror message.