FCP render files become unusable

We have 5 FCP sets connected to a XSAN environment. All sets are running FCP 5.1.1/OSX 10.4.7/XSAN 1.4. There are two Metadata servers running OSX server 10.4.7. The backup metadata server is also running as directory master.
Every set has it's own directory user (for example SET1). No local users exist. The set's users are joined in a directory group (SAN_users).
The XSAN environment consists of folders which belong to a certain project (for example COMMERCIAL_1000). The XSAN volume uses ACL to control access rights. The directory group (SAN_users) has the rights to do everything on the volume.
When a project is started on SET1, render files generated by SET1 become unusable if the project was openend on SET2. It's not that the same project is open on both sets at the same time. If you work with your project on SET1 on monday, and on thursday you have to work on it in SET3, the render files of the project are useless.
Does anyone have any suggestion how render files can be preserved?
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2GHz/2Gb/120Gb

So when you open the project(s) in question, do you get the reconnect prompt?...and does it show the render files in the dialog box?
I've seen FCP 'lose' render files in the past, but have never determined exactly why, and it's not been an issue to simply re-render. I'm sure it is an issue for you.
I don't know the decklink processes, so don't know if that is part of the problem. Hopefully others will.
Are you certain you've told FCP to send render files to the drive you expect them to be on?
Have you run standard maintenance procedures?...Trash prefs w/FCP Rescue, Run Disk Utility/Repair permissions...etc?
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