FCE claims media offline, but it's not

I opened up my project today and noticed that two of the video clips on the Timeline have turned black with the red stripe across the middle that says "Media Offline." Both of these clips were derived from a single clip in the Browser, and that clip is still sitting right there in the Browser with all the rest of the clips, although it too has turned black with the red message stripe across it.
I looked on the hard drive and the original clip is still there in the folder I took it from when I dropped it into FCE's browser (It's in a Media folder inside of an iMovie project). And the clips play just fine in the timeline--the playhead moves right through them normally and the video plays smoothly. Nothing is amiss at all, except for the colors of the clips and the false claim that the media is offline.
What causes this? Although everything is still functioning just fine, I don't like the look of those clips sitting there with that big red warning on them, false though it is, and I worry that iDVD might not like them either when I go to burn this project to a DVD. Any way to fix this annoyance?

I had this problem a while ago, and the reason was that the clips went in fact offline for a short while and then back online (they were on an external drive), but the clip thumbnails were not updated.
I used the trick to force thunbnail updating by deleting the Thumbnail Cache (I guess this is the file name - cannot check now) in the FCE Documents folder. FCE will rebuild all thumbnails at next restart.
Probably there is a better way, but this worked.
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