ENTIRE project suddenly GONE after multiple saves

I'm new to Final Cut Express but I have been using Final Cut Pro for several years.
I was working on a project today - I had imported everything, organized all of my files, and created a rough cut - all while saving periodically. I reached a stopping point and closed the project and FCE, but several minutes later thought to check something. When I reopened FCE everything was gone. There was nothing in my browser, no bins full of clips, nothing in the timeline, just nothing but an entirely blank new project. When I tried to open my saved file directly from the desktop or the finder, FCE just told me that it was already open. I am freaking out.
I have looked at all of the sequences and all of the tabs in the browser. I cannot find ANYTHING. The only thing that I can think of that might have caused this is the fact that I was working with AVI files that I had converted to .mp4s, but they seemed to be working fine when I was cutting them. I am working on this project for work and I am very, very concerned about the lost hours and footage. Any advice that you could offer would be immensely appreciated. I'm ripping my hair out over this! HELP!!!

Hi -
Have you done a Spotlight search of your project's name on your drives, to see if in inadvertently moved the project file (place it in within a folder, for example, or accidentally dragged it to the trash) in the brief period of time you had shut down FCE?
Have you tried File > Restore Project to see if there are any autosaved versions of the project available?
The only time I have seen anything like this behavior is if I close a project file, then move it at the finder level to a new location - when FCE re-opens, not finding the project in the same place it was when it was closed, it defaults to opening a new file.
Hope this helps. Report back.
MtD

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