FCP  to Color with 2+hrs of multi camera footage

Greetings,
I am sending quite a large project to Color, it is a Multi clip sequence that I am sending, I have collapsed the sequence prior to sending it, however I am finding one camera angle is being sent to color with the wrong time code, or should I say the footage is not what is in the timeline, there are a few minutes that were deleted (removal of a speaker or two). The deleted footage is showing up when the sequence is sent to color. This is only happening to ONE angle. I noticed it AFTER I sent the project back to color, and all of that angle was completely out of sync.
Thankfully I saved the timing droplets(for a lack of better terms),
I set up the render before I go home for the night.
I am working with Color 1.0.4, FCP 6.06
The footage is 720 60p.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Andrew

Upgrade wouldn't work anyway, because the grades are not valid from version 1.0 to 1.5.
If you have collapsed the multiclip to one V1 and then gone to COLOR and then discovered the snag in the workflow, then a media manage, making the active angle independent will get you a new project/sequence that will respond well to an Import Color Corrections from the original colorproj.
The new sequence must be identical to the original, so that the clip sequence 1- how ever many you have, corresponds one-to-one with the old one... for example, clip 92, if there is one is the same clip on both timelines... except the new one is independent whereas the old one is a container/nested placeholder (which is sort of how multiclip works) that COLOR has no idea what its supposed to be or where it came from.
There aren't that many other options.
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