Compressor 4 cluster problem

I have just set up my MacBook Pro and iMac with Compressor 4 as a cluster. Everything looks fine, but when I send the file out to render it fails with an error "error reading source.....no such file or directory". The file renders fine when I don't tick the "this computer plus" box.
I've followed the path Compressor is using and it points to the alias in the events folder which goes from the "original media" folder back to the actual location of the .mov files. Sure enough, in Finder, OS X tells me the alias has failed. However, when I try to fix it and browse to the original file, the "OK" button lights up but nothing happens when I click it. This seems to be the case for ALL .mov files in every project I have edited.
The weird thing is that FCP X can obviously see all of these files as everything works fine - I can edit and render with no problem. The issue only arises when I choose "this computer plus" or pick a cluster.
So it looks like the aliases do point to the correct files but cannot be accessed directly from the Finder or when Compressor 4 looks for them in cluster mode.
I hope that makes sense.
Hopefully someone has seen similar behaviour.
Thanks,
Jack.

Hi Studio X, not sure how to do that but I just worked it out. It was (as you seem to have worked out) the alias that was the clue.
I had put together these FCP X projects on a different USB drive. As I wanted to be more organised I copied over all the projects to a new 1TB USB drive which I'm only using for storage and editing. The good thing about this is that I can simply remove the drive and plug it into a different Mac and FCP X sees everything - events, projects, original files. However, there must be some reference to the name of the old USB drive as part of the alias which Compressor doesn't like when in cluster mode. I started a quick project on the new drive and Compressor 4 worked as a 3 machine cluster with no problems.
I can't quite understand why FCP X finds the original video at all if it is looking for the drive name and not just the path to the files, but it seems not to care.
Anyone have any ideas about this?

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