External HD forces project to re-render

We are using an external FireWire 800 drive to "share" projects for FCPX. We move it back and forth between three iMacs. For some reason, each time we reconnect it, it seems our projects have to re-render most, if not all, of the project. This is a collossal waste of time sice those projects have already rendered.
What am I doing wrong? The hard drive name does not change. Is there a preference somewhere that will resolve this? Thanks!
Also, as a side note, Final Cut X seems very finicky about opening events/projects when moving the HD back and forth among computers. On one machine it will "stabilize" and open everything very quickly. When we move the HD to another machine, it chokes and we have to gently open 20-30 events in clusters until FCPX stabilizes. Then after a while everything opens nicely on that machine as well. What's up? It's almost like FCPX also stores some info on the local machine and not just the source directory of the video files.

You could try and disable background rendering. Often it is not needed.
I realize this doesn't answer your question, and I would also like to know the answer...

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