If you can open the file on other machines and scroll past the measure, it's *not* the file or Finale. My IT prof guess is that you have some sort of "hole" in your drive (file structure issue -- either physical as in a ding on the drive, or structural as in your file system). When you page so many graphics to wherever on the drive this is handled, and the mail slots taken by the paged information do not match what the map says their location is (resource forks, etc), you get all sorts of bizarre crashes because the information the system expects isn't there or is the wrong information.
If you are pressed for time as you probably are, the answer is to wipe the slate clean, so to speak. There is no sense in chasing your tail to fix a problem when it is possible that there can be a domino effect costing you valuable time. It sounds like a big job but it isn't if you are prepared for it. As it stands now my system could fail immediately and I would be back up in about four hours.
You may be (very likely) looking at a restructuring of your hard drive, and I would prepare accordingly. *NOW*. Just in case it is your hard drive failing or in the process of failing -- better safe than sorry. In the meantime make sure that all utilities to correct this (Disk Dr, etc) are run, but be aware that they can lie -- so whatever it fixes is a temporary measure only. Do not trust it implicitly.
When this happens to me, I take the necessary steps to put a new drive in the machine regardless (to save myself the headache), and relegate the possible bad drive to a secondary drive situation (usually externally). Sometimes a repartitioning fixes the issue and I can recycle the drive, sometimes the drive is dead. The idea here is to get your stuff protected absolutely *before* you start determining whether the drive is still good. This may seem drastic but from 15 years experience I have learned that this is the most sensible approach when problems like this happen, and I build my systems on the assumption that this will happen eventually.
Keef.
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