FCP 4.5 files "too new" to open in 5.1

For what it's worth, this is definitely a bug in my opinion. I have several 2-year-old projects which I have been asked to restore for some minor changes and remastering. I am gettin the "too new" message on these files. These project files are coming from my backups, and have not been changed since August of 2004. They were definitely saved from FCP 4.5. I have tried opening them on four different machines, both Power PC and Intel. All of our systems here have already been upgraded to 5.1 - I may have to find a machine with 4.5 to try that.
There must be some scrap of code in these 4.5 project files which are not recognized or supported in FCP 5.1, which keeps FCP from recognizing the version - it doesn't think the files are acutally too new, FCP just doesn't recognize something in the files, and can't describe the error any other way.
Any suggestions would be helpful, but I am suspecting the only way this issue will be fixed is through an FCP update which specifically addresses this issue.
My system is a non-intel dual 1.8 G5.

the only thing i might suggest is check your current version ... FCP 5.1, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 all use different project formats (or at least 2 different kinds) - are you the most current ie 5.1.2. i know it doesn't make sense, but that doesn't mean it might not help you ...
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