Final Cut Pro 4 apple certification manual

I'm using Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD and bought the Apple Pro Training Series book by Diana Weynard. The book comes with FCP book files. I want to start the lessons over, but I can't. When I trash the book files and drag them back over from the DVD, FCP says my media is offline and will only let me reconnect to 3 or 4 items before everything grays out. What I want to do is clear all the media off the hard drive and start the lessons over with clean files. Help! I'm desperate and frustrated.

Okay, here goes. I purchased final cut Pro 4 /apple pro training series. It comes with a disc containing lessons and media files. I installed the media files. I did up to lesson 6 a few months ago and want to start over since I can't remember a lot of it. But I have done the lessons so everything in the lesson plan is already done. Basically, I just want to start over. So I killed all the FCP lesson folder off my hard drive and brought them over again. BUT! when i go to do the lesson, the media is "offline" for the lesson. Geez, I thought it would all disappear when I brought over the files from the DVD again. Wrong! So, how do I clear all these book files and just start over with clean media. Hope you can help! Thanks for anything you can offer.

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