Combining Multiple Projects

Hi,
I have recently been editing footage from a road trip and as the end result is going to be quite large I have broken the project down into 3 different files (road trip 1, road trip 2 amd road trip 3). I have done this so I can save them on my external harddrive so they do not slow down my computer.
Question is now I have completed the three different files I want to combine them all under one project name (Road Trip) so I can burn it onto one DVD. Problem is when I copy and paste the three files into the one final master all of the audio and effects are either left behind or out of place.
Is there a way to combine these 3 files into one master movie wihtout losing all the audio and effects?
Thanks

a) .. wouldn't be 3 movies give 3 nice 'chapters' on final DVD ?
b) if harddrive space is no issue:
export from within iM as 'Quicktime'FullQuality'
import 3 resulting files into a new project..
that shouldn't result in any quality loss, due to usage of same codec... (the 'export' is mainly just a 'copy to' ...)

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welcome phiphika to the  board…
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