Clips invisible in timeline as canvas and viewer playback become erratic.

cutting a feature on the fcp... has anyone else had the problem where, at some point, the clips and thumbnails cut into the timeline start failing to appear (although they are, indeed, present). simulaneous with this issue, the canvas and viewer become erratic. for instance, i can't drag across the timeline and have it appear in the canvas unless i hit the spacebar first... same with the viewer.
i had this problem earlier and thought it was corrected when i increased ram and disk space allocated to thumbnails and lessened the amount of memory allocated to fcp. this helped for a while but now, as the feature edit grows longer, the above problems have reappeared.
any thoughts? thanks.

Shane's Stock Tip Mantra: If the program was working
fine, and now isn't, or just isn't working the way it
should, the first things to do are:
1) Trash your FCP preferences. Download the
appropriate version of FCP Rescue at
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/ and run it.
2) Open the Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
3) (optional) Sacrifice a goat on the eve of the
first Full Moon of the month. Results may vary.
Shane
thanks for the response shane... this may sound naieve but i'm new to fcp... does trashing the preferences affect the work i've already done on the timeline-- which is considerable.
also... the hyperlink you supplied wouldn't open for me. is it typed accurately?
finally... i have my wife's yorkshire terrier for sacrifice. would that be a suitable substitute?
thanks again.

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Hi Russ, Thank you for your reply!
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