FCPX Messes up Scenes on Timeline - Scary!!

Im about 40% through a short film, have a 3 week deadline.. going ok until this morning when i opened FCPX and at least 3 scenes were what appeaered to be randomised on the timeline.. screwing video and audio! I thought was having a nightmare.. a section in the timeline that took almost 10 hours seemingly completely messed up! the scenes and audio before and after on the timeline seemed ok. Pondering on what to do next and not wanting to touch the timeline I restarted fcpx praying it was just my imagination and then.. PING!! All was back to normal!!
I have absolutely no idea .. don't even know where to begin to troubleshoot this one! Thus far I have duplicated the timeline hoping it will serve as a back up.
Q. Has anybody experienced this with FCPX 10.1.3 ? Im using a new Late2013 Mac Pro (8 core, 64Gigs RAM, D700, 1TB HDD - 8TB Thunderbolt G-TEC RAID Video Drives with Yosemite - all latest everything!)
Thanks.

Looks like the culprit was a rogue fcpx transition. After removing it, I have not see not seen the issue.. and that was 2 weeks ago! However, 2 days ago, one of my clips appeared as another video clip!! I did a Undo, and it returned back to its original clip again?! Very, very strange! All-in-all, FCPX is stable, just need to keep a check on what FCPX is doing to the clips sometimes. Definitely a bug of some sort in FCPX 10.1.3, Now I'm on 10.1.4 - so far, so good. Film moving into next phase of post-production.

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