As if FCP-X wasn't buggy enough, HELP doesn't work either!

So I click on the Help menu and choose Final Cut Pro X Help. There, I get the search box, where I can type in a word or a phrase. I typed in the phrase I thought might reveal the Help items that might be of interest to me, and sure enough a list of articles comes up. But when I click on one of them, nothing happens. The whole list does nothing. Click on any one of them, and nothing happens.
Nice.
So good luck figuring it all out on your own.

Hi, thanks for responding.
This problem has occurred over and over again since I installed FCPX. I am sure at some point I connected to something on the network using FCPX. However, whatever it was has been disconnected.
Restarting the computer and not connecting to the network issues the same warning. As soon as I connect to the network, of course, the warnings go away. This is most annoying when on the road, as I need to connect to my VPN to make the warnings disappear.
Currently, the problem is occurring with the Events list empty and the Projects list showing my local hard drive and an external hard drive; there aren't any resources on 'nas' (the network it's seeking). For whatever reason, it needs something on the network, yet I can't tell what it is.
I searched for 'nas' in all the plist files, but it's not mentioned anywhere. I cleaned the plist files as well using the aforementioned preferences cleaning application, to no avail.

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