Map making problems "Drawing maps contour bitmap" hanging

[Craigs]

I thought I had this figured out but it only works when I make really small maps. The DEM is apparently importing OK I can see the greyscale heightmap at the selection window with no distortion. But if I set the window to 1000 x 1000 the process flys along until it trys to draw the maps contour bitmap and the progressbar keeps cycling, or repeating. It just hangs there with the progressbar looping slowly. I dont think this is a map issue since Im trying to make a map smaller than the 5000x5000 limit. I think this is a bug in the contour "making" part of the power toolkit. Will you guys please look into this or point out what Im doing wrong?