Corrupt Project? Infinite Beach Ball when opening a large project.

I have a music video project that has a single multicam multicam clip with 10 angles. The project cuts between angles several thousand times, which I painstakingly did by hand over the last few weeks.
Today FCPX crashed and I had to force quit the project. Before re-opening I went to lunch and upon my return found whenever I open the project I get an infinitely spinning beach ball. I've spent the last 12 hours trying every combination of tricks I could find online that might help with absolutely no luck. Also, here is a process sample...
https://gist.github.com/2657068
When I inpsect the process with Activity Monitor it shows it consuming approximately 500-600mb of memory, and consumes 200% of the CPU with about 20-40 threads, it varies within that range each time I try opening. It also seems to read/write from disk occasionally but not at high data rates. Typically the project consumes 2-3gb of memory, so it's not making it quite that far.
To name a few...
Deleting render files, opening without the events, deleting project info, verify disk, repair disk, opening the project file in the backups folder. I even purchased all the digital rebellion tools and tried running all of the fixers against the project, laptop, and environment.
This project deadline is in 4 days, and even if I started all over I wouldn't even be able to complete the angle cuts in that amount of time.
This problem doesn't seem entirely uncommon, so I beg of anyone who might have some advice, please tell me what to try!?!?
The last thing I can even think up to try is just letting it run. I've got about 12 hours before I have to check out of this hotel, we'lll see what happens...

Also worth mentioning. The project uses Proxy Media, not sure if optimized media is enabled or not.

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