CS5 Programs losing track of CS4 project file locations?

A friend recently got his hands on a AE and Premiere Pro CS5, and I thought I'd give them a test drive. But when I attempted to open a few project files in both programs, they couldn't locate any of the footage, music, or other resources used in the projects. I'm probably missing something simple here, but does anyone have an idea as to why (Premiere, as we're on those fourms) would be acting like this? It would really be a pain to have to locate everything manually if I were to upgrade to CS5.
Thanks

For future reference, you can Open your PRPROJ file in NotePad, or WordPad, or similar, and see what the Path is, that PrPro "thinks" should be linked to.
If you do any editing of the XML in the PRPROJ file, be very sure to Save_As, so as to not overwrite your original PRPROJ file, in case you mis-type.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - I agree with Craig's reply. PrPro tries to make locating Moved/Renamed Assets easy. Find is a great tool to use. Yes, it's easiest if one has some clue as to where they Moved the files to, as it saves navigation. Once PrPro has been pointed to that missing Asset, it will then search that folder for any more in that Project and link to them. If you have an intricate sub-folder hierarchy, you will need to point to each of those sub-folders.

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