Recently, I have had constant VV3 program crashes. The program just stops with the following message:

Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 3.0
Version 3.0 (Build 76)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x102307 IP:0x54412B
In Module 'vegas30.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0x14412B
Thread: VideoCache ID=0x36C Stack=0x220F000-0x2210000
Registers:
EAX=00472400 CS=001b EIP=0054412b EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00102303 SS=0023 ESP=0220ff48 EBP=00000001
ECX=00000003 DS=0023 ESI=04811e80 FS=003b
EDX=00000000 ES=0023 EDI=04812030 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0054412B: 8B 53 04 51 8B 0B 52 8B .S.Q..R.
00544133: 57 04 51 8B 0F 52 8B 56 W.Q..R.V
Stack Dump:
0220FF48: 0000008A
0220FF4C: 006575D0 00400000 + 2575D0 (vegas30.exe)
0220FF50: 04811E80 04760000 + B1E80
0220FF54: 0002388B
0220FF58: 00542FCB 00400000 + 142FCB (vegas30.exe)
0220FF5C: 04811E80 04760000 + B1E80
0220FF60: 00000000
0220FF64: 0220FF78 02110000 + FFF78
0220FF68: 77E9310F 77E80000 + 1310F (KERNEL32.DLL)
0220FF6C: 006575D0 00400000 + 2575D0 (vegas30.exe)
0220FF70: 0220FFB4 02110000 + FFFB4
0220FF74: 77E8670D 77E80000 + 670D (KERNEL32.DLL)
0220FF78: 00000000
0220FF7C: 00000000
0220FF80: 005430E2 00400000 + 1430E2 (vegas30.exe)
0220FF84: 0000002C
> 0220FF90: 006575D0 00400000 + 2575D0 (vegas30.exe)
0220FF94: 00000000
0220FF98: 81581D60
0220FF9C: 0220FF88 02110000 + FFF88
0220FFA0: 0220FB94 02110000 + FFB94
> 0220FFA8: 0060AC70 00400000 + 20AC70 (vegas30.exe)
- - -
0220FFF0: 00000000
0220FFF4: 00543070 00400000 + 143070 (vegas30.exe)
0220FFF8: 006575D0 00400000 + 2575D0 (vegas30.exe)
0220FFFC: 00000000

My setup is as follow:

Compaq Armarda E-500
250 MB RAM
Project about 7 minutes in length with various MP3's, captured video, JPEG and GIF files. Any comments and/or suggestions?

Thanks