Final Cut Pro Sequence Trouble

I transfered some projects to an external hard drive today, and when I opened them, some of the sequences are out of sync, they're fine when exported, but in FCP they run out of sync...Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
System Information:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Using Final Cut Studio 2
Iomega 500GB External HDD running with Firewire 400
Cheers in advance guys...
Mike

I assume that your footage is on the external drive. If so, how full is that drive? Should try to have about 15% free space on your capture drive.
rh

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