FCP Searching for missing MXFs

I am curious if anyone has ever seen anything similar to an issue I am seeing come up on several FCP stations.
When opening FCP it will start to search for missing MXF media as if it is trying to open a project that was last opened. It will continue to look for a file or several files and sometimes never actually open FCP. I am assuming at some point somone must have opened an Avid proxy file within FCP and it is still searching for one of the MXFs the proxy was pointing to.
Some things I have tried to do to solve the issue:
- Within FCP's settings I have turned off the option to open last project upon startup
- Trashing preferences
- Running Digital Rebellions preference trasher
I have seen this come up on about 5 computers so far. Sometimes after 15 minutes or so FCP will launch, but on other machines it will never actually get past searching for these files.
Here are 2 screenshots during the startup:
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/513b018de5912ac71528f0f30a8daf3f9715d1c0b2ab 9869af6b6daab230955f6g.jpg
and
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/5466aa6fbe1f260dd135d640d2219c6acd7d346bb69f b161253e2d63d96709f56g.jpg
If anyone has seen this and or has any feedback on a possible fix that would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Jesse Korosi

No, the drive is not connected anymore.
I do not have Automatic Duck on any of the machines and know that none of my crew use the software. But it makes sense that it would be looking for the MXFs as I could see us
- Syncing media in Avid to create editorial dailies
- Exporting Avid reference files
- Importing those reference files into FCP to add chapter markers or something of the like and then rendering out using compressor.
Either way, it makes sense that FCP would be looking for these MXF's. But these projects are now old and it would be nice if I could just cancel this search when it starts? Or not have it try to find this media when I first open FCP..?
Any suggestions?

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