Final Cut Pro refuses to Reconnect Media

I'm just figuring out FCP. I got far enough to import one hundred 9MB image files and cut it all together with music, titles, a FRAPS capture background, and basic motions. I exported an avi and uploaded to YouTube and such. So far, seems dandy.
Since it's on a dedicated machine at the office, I log in. When I came back to work on it some more the next day, FCP said my "media files are offline." I have all my files organized and shared on the LAN, so I figured out to Reconnect Media in chunks across my nine or so bins. I didn't have to reconnect all 100+ files individually. It's 3+ GB worth of data.
Today I log in, I get the ornery expected "offline" business, but for some random reason FCP will not match the filenames en masse anymore. It has decided it's looking for...
Sketch 74 - Sunday Morn D0.tif
...instead of the real filename...
Sketch 74 - Sunday Morning Restaurant 1-1.tif
FCP seems to have appended sequential HEX values to the filenames. Maybe I enabled some weird logging "feature"? It works as expected if I hard navigate to reconnect one image file.
Anyway, I can't edit a video if I have to reconnect 100 individual media files manually per login. Help?

I have "imported" my media files from across the network. I used the "Import" command and pointed to a network folder. There was difference - I put bins inside of bins to make a cleaner tree structure for myself.
I've begun the process of making my filenames more terse and even more organized. Hopefully I can just do one massive import when I login to work.

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