Can't import media

OK, I'll start by telling you what I THINK caused this problem. I've been working on this project on one computer, then moved my HD to another to work at the office. I had to let PE know where the files were. When I pointed it to their location, it seemed at first to get it's new bearings. But I see that this really screwed things up...I think.
Now that I'm back at my home computer, whenever I got to place a file in the timeline, I see this batch of confusion...I get the same symbol regardless of the file type I import. I see the same symbols for all of the files I'd previously imported, but they are correctly rendered in the timeline.
I've tried deleting the files and re-importing, and just redoing the get media thing. When I do, windows presents the standard looking window of files. I click any file in the list and all the files are cleared from the screeen and only the one I clicked remains. The process is pretty wierd and looks like this.
Basic question....how do I get PE to let me import media again?
Philosophical question....why does this happen just as I get near the end of a project. Have I taken Murphy on as a partner?

Well, yes and no. I can get media into the project but....
I just added my last day of time lapse using the numbered stills method. Zip, into the timeline. Yee Hawww. Then I rendered it so I could see it quickly enough to reposition it with your spot on Bezier curve advice. Once it was rendered about 1/4 of a 30 second clip plays then it freezes. I can't even see additional frames when I focus my view later in the clip.
I tried creating a new project and dropping into it. Same thing. I'm in the process of burning it to a disk to see if it's really in there or not.
In that I get something different whenever I reconfigure memory, that's almost got to be it. I'm going to try to leave you guys alone for a while and work through memory options. If you see a big mushroom cloud comming up over Dallas....that's me;-)

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