I am getting similar issues, my model is done on a MacBookPro, 10.5.6 and sent to a PC machine with one gig of ram.
they downloaded Sketchup and cannot open the larger model 11.8megabites, but can a small handrail model..
I have sent this to another mac machine and it opened fine,
we did the window>model info> statistics thing, it said everything was okay
still having issues with the PC machine being able to open the larger model.
any body got any ideas what to do???
thanks
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