FCP 7 not saving (or autosaving) correctly

When I open a project on FCP 7 - work on it for a few hours - saving regulary and autosaving is set to 3 minutes - close it after I'm done and open it again later - it hasn't saved anything I've changed or it only saved random changes.  This is happening more and more to me in the last few days.  What on earth can cause this?  It is very frustrating working on a project for a day only to discover the next day that all your work has been lost.  I'm working on Mac OS X version 10.6.7.
What can cause this kind of behaviour and how can I fix it?
Thanks for your help!

I'd set Auto Save to save 12 copies max, every 5 minutes.  3 minutes is a bit excessive.  And this is odd, I've never seen a save issue in FCP.
1st, get Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion (dot com) for free, trash FCP preferences.
2nd, verify where the Auto Save files are going, verify they are all there, timed and dated properly.
3rd, verify ALL hard drives on your system have at least 15 per cent of their total capacity left as free space.

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