FCP project opens slowly

My FCP7 project takes a very long time to open up (compared to others that do not possess any Motion4 interaction such as the stuff detailed below).
My project takes about 10 minutes to finally open up completely where others (such as wedding videos or photo histories) open almost immediately.
I'm wondering if my Motion4 interaction has anything to do with this. Here are some details on what I'm working with....
I'm working on a project where I'm going from FCP7 to Motion4 quite often (select clip> send to Motion). I do that several times in a 3 minute project (I'd say I have about 4 or 5 clips - probably 10 seconds each, on average). In motion, I'm working in a 720x480 project (video footage only) and I am building custom masks to cut out an interview subject in the frame) We don't have green screen here.
From there I'm tracking all points on that mask for the duration of the clip. As you know this is pretty processor intensive - especially with a stock video card like we have.
When working in the project, some things take more time than others (which is to be expected) but things seem normal there. No crashes or freeze ups of any kind.
However, it's when I go to open up the project the following day that it takes exceedingly long to get up and running.
Is this due to the excessive Motion4 interaction within FCP7? Would it be better to create these masks as individual projects instead of using the FCP to Motion back to FCP workflow?
Thanks for any input.
Steve
Message was edited by: Steve Delasantos

I haven't trashed the preferences yet. I'll try that from home tonight.
I didn't have any capture issues when I originally imported the footage a few years ago. I managed to cut almost the entire project without issues. The only thing that really changed was upgrading to FCP 7 and Snow Leopard. Since then, this one particular project (also my oldest project) has been having issues.

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