Canvas View Not Following External Video

Hello, everyone. I've had this problem before, and somehow managed to figure out how to fix it, but I'm having it again, and - for the life of me - it's stumping the heck out of me and I haven't been able to figure out how to undo it.
My external monitor is indeed playing the timeline sequence realtime, but the video on the Canvas is frozen. It only shows the frame I'm on when I stop playback.
My caps lock button is NOT on (that's happened before and I undid it).
View>External Video>All Frames
Video Playback>Apple Firewire NTSC (720X480)
Audio Playback>Firewire 410 [this is the audio device I use for playback]
Show Multiclip Angles is UNchecked
I'm stumped!
It's always been a quick fix before - a button I accidentally pressed or unpressed - but I haven't figured it out this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,
Javier Calderon

Also, and by the way, this is a feature I've been working on for a few months now - so it's a problem that just arose on a project I've been sailing decently on for a while now. Additionally, it seems to be something I did to FCP itself - and not to the specific project sequence I'm working on, because I opened up two other sequences to see if they were working well . . . and those other sequences weren't either. The other sequences had the same issue - letting me, again, know that it's some issue with the overall FCP program settings perhaps as opposed to the specific project I'm on.

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