Crazy permission/disk problems with FCP

I've been using Final Cut pro flawlessly on this machine for a long time with no problems (I'm a freelance editor). Then yesterday, I received a small Seagate USB drive with media on it from a cinematographer. I mounted it to copy the footage onto my own firewire drive (via eSata to my G-Drive) so I could send the drive back to the guy. When I tried to copy the media to the FW drive, it gave me the circle with the cross mark in it showing I couldn't copy it. I thought it might be a permissions thing on the drive, but everything on both drives looked good. I couldn't copy to my desktop, either. I could copy TO the USB drive, I could duplicate a file already on it onto the same drive, I could read the media on the drive, but I couldn't copy to another drive.
I tried the old Mac restart trick but it didn't work. To make sure it wasn't MY machine or MY drive, I plugged the little USB drive into my other laptop. Same thing happened.
I plugged it back into my main computer. The guy had sent the Final Cut project files that he digitized into, so I launched them off the USB drive, and was able to use Media Mover to copy the media to my own firewire drive. I was able to edit, etc. Perfect. I unplug the USB drive and everything goes off line (I figured FCP was still looking at the old files) so I reconnected the media to the new copy on my firewire drive. Everything's good.
I ended up having to relaunch FCP for a new project and got an error that Final Cut couldn't write to my scratch disk (my OWN firewire drive with the copied media on it). I've never had that happen. I checked the permissions on my drive, everything's good. So I grab a file on my own drive to try to copy it somewhere - and I get the same f-ing error I originally had on the other guy's USB drive. Apparently, whatever the problem is has spread.
SO - I tried to run the Mac Drive Utility and it won't run on my FW drive. It's showing as an unknown format type and I don't know why that is. I also can't find my system start up disks (wonderful) to try to run disk repair from that. I would be all for just wiping the drive and reformatting it - but it has EVERYTHING I use on it (music, sound effects, other projects in the works). I don't know if it's corrupt media, a corrupt FCP file, or something that now needs to be repaired on my drive.
I'm in desperate need of help.

How weird. I was sure I had already tried that, but it worked. Not only can I copy media, but FCP will write to it, AND it now shows as Mac extended again. Spooky. In the last hour, I had tried Disk Warrior (couldn't access it), and Disk Utility (couldn't access it), as well as a Virus Scanner (you guessed it - couldn't access it).
Thanks for the help. All is working now. Hopefully, this house of cards doesn't collapse again.

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stages.
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I had searched the macbook pro forum, but not this one. It seems that the "screen tearing" issue has been talked about a lot, so I apologize for the repetitive nature of the post. I will say that I am fairly shocked that given how many people have clearly called applecare, no one there seems to have a clue that there is a problem with this video card. I have talked with at least 4 different people in the FCP specialty group, and not one had any clue what I was talking about... 3 of the 4 were fairly insistent that it was a video source issue on my side.
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