Final Cut Pro X project appears damaged

Hi. I spent hours editing a 3 minute video and went to Export into a MOV format.  However, when I opened the MOV file, it was nothing like my project. It looked like bits and pieces of my video, and about 80 seconds of blank video/audio at the end. I reopened my FCP project, and sure enough, it's NOT my project, just a jacked up version. All of my edits are missing, leaving this unusable project. Long story short, this is NOT what I spent all my time working on. The project length is correct, but the contents are basically bits and pieces, and none of my audio or video clips are in the timeline or in the correct place, just little bits of video here and there with a LOT of blank space at the end.
I've tried trashing my prefs. No help. I tried opening the backup file, get an error "The document “20130730-140144-MST.fcpproject” could not be opened". Is there some kind of "rebuild database" command I'm not aware of? Or am I going to have to start this entire project from scratch which would be yet another 4-6 hours?
Jerry

In the FInder, move that BU file up one level – the same level as the CurrentVersion file. Hide the Current Version file in a temp folder. Rename the BU file CurrentVersion.fcpproject.
Launch FCP and see if the project will now open.
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