Export Report times out - how do I export all my customers?

We have about 35,000 customers in our BC database.

I'm trying to export them for use in a direct mailing campaign (and other reports for other reasons) but the export always times out.

The reports are very simple; ie.

1. Custom Report -> Add customer report
2. Select Customers (Contacts & Companies)
3. Select CRM ID, Customer Name, Default Address Type
4. Next
5. Generate report (no filters)
6. About 33,000 results are in the report.
7. I then select Export Report as CSV or Excel and it will sit there for up to an hour or more and do nothing.

Notes:

• I keep the session live by having a login in another tab.
• Have tried differenty browsers and internet connections.
• I even filtered the results (based on create date) and same problem occurred with just 15,000.

How can I export this report and other simple reports I need?

Regards,

Troy.