Audacity won't let me normalize

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to finish up my last podfic for the amplificathon contest -- which is over tonight -- and I'm having trouble with Audacity not letting me normalize the first part of the story, which is edited and is 66KB. It started acting a little strange at the end of editing last night, when it wouldn't let me cut a long stretch, so I had to cut, like 1 minute at a time. It started to let me normalize by doing the same thing - just one minute at time, which was going to take forever but I was willing to do it, but now it just keeps closing me down. Sigh. I only got 1 minute in.

I just now tried to normalize the second part -- about 50 minutes -- and it worked just fine. (Thank God).

Any ideas on how to fix this? I do not have any other programs running tonight, I did last night.

Posting this at Amplificathon and podfic tips.

Laurie