Final cut x import issues

hi guys.
recently changed to final cut x.... I actually had been scared to because I read so many bad things about it when It released, but I love it.
anyway.. I was running it on an external drive on leopard, and decided that I want to try and run it on my laptop with mountain lion.
current config is that I have a macbook pro running mountain lion. I have the dual boot with leopard for other programs, and originally it was for FCP 6 as there were issues with that and mountain lion.
Anyway. I created a project in FCP X on the leopard drive. I wanted to use that project on the Mountain Lion volume. But I would like to continue using the external drive as the scratch disk and the events folder etc. After re-reading all of the tutorials i did, it seems that there is the option to set your destination folder up when you create/save the project first off, but I can't seem to work out how to just bring over the event file and the project file and have it still reflect back to the external drive where all of the data/media files are.
anyone know how I can do this? or should I just finish export this project on leopard, and start all new projects on mountain lion with the scratch/external drive as the media source drive...
thanks
bret

here is a link to the first video files i exported. the quality of one of them was pixelated, it was pro res 422 but with h26 encoding . the other was something I can't remember.
as for the type of format of the picture I am filming, it is also a screen shot that gives you the info on the format of the film clip.
hope that helps
http://functionfitpt.com/screeshots/

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