Can't highlight my effects in my timeline

Hi
I am working in FCE on a Macbook Pro. For some reason I am having trouble highlighting an effect in my timeline so I can change its length. I can apply the effects but when I go to change the length or render everything it doesn't do anything. I can only render now if I chose "Select All." I have 90% of my files for the project on an external hard drive. Could this be giving me the problems. I know I've used this external hard drive before. Anyone out there know what might be going on here?
Thanks in advance.

How are you trying to change the length of something? Ripple tool? Selection tool? Something else? What are you doing to render?
Try trashing your preferences
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html

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