Final Cut Startup and External HD

Hello,
Besides numerous problems Leopard is giving me lately, one major issue we are having is I can't start up FCP without certain external hard drives turned on. Even when the drive has nothing to do with the last open project. On FCP boot up, it stalls and I get the color wheel. This has happened on two different machines, with separate external drives (one Firewire 800, the other eSATA), and separate projects.
Both have FCP 6.0.4. Anyone else seen this issue? I can provide more info if needed. Thanks!
Eric

Thanks for the quick reply, but no, trashing the preferences doesn't seem to help.
I guess a major thing I did leave out is that my external drives contain P2 content folders. I've been using a program called HDLog to archive the footage, which allows me to export FCP XML files. The XMLs are stored on the internal RAID, not on the external drive. Even more so, the XML files are linked to folders on the internal RAID which contains quicktime movie files that act as pointers to the .xmf files on the external dive. One computer when it tries to boot, says it can't find certain .mov files. The .mov files are obvious P2 files because they are titled with the great 6 alphanumeric string.
Sounds like I've found my culprit, but even after clearing all the FCP prefs, and starting FCP fresh, with no previous projects uploading, FCP still won't start until those drives are booted up. So I don't know if I have a P2 HDLog issue or just an XML issue?
I hope this isn't unique issue, I feel better when it isn't all my fault.

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