Frustrating FCE HD problem

I am having a major issue with FCE. I have a NTSC project started that I opened and saved multiple times with no issue. I have my capture scratch on a LaCie 500gb firewire 800 external. FCE HD now quits every time I try to open it. I get the unexpectedly quit box. FCE will open if I don't have the LaCie connected, but then all the clips are offline. I tried to reconnect, but it appears I have to do it one clip at a time, there has to be a better way.
Once upon a time, I had the enexpectedly quit error and solved it with regestering soundtrack (found that tip on here), but apparently that is not the case right now as soundtrack opens fine.
I have also tried trashing prefs and deleting the program and reinstalling from scratch. I can not seem to open that project with the LaCie connected.
Please does anyone see my problem standing out to them.
John

Ok, so I tried to delete the preferences the way you referenced, no change.
I deleted the way you referenced and re-installed. FCE opens no problem. I can open another project with no problem (just missing the render files cause i deleted the FCE documents folders.
I go to open the project that was giving me the problems, and it quits at 17% of the project loaded.
I am assuming I have some sort of corupted project folder. Is there anything I can do to keep from starting over? This project has been frustrating me as it is, without having to re-import all the files and start the sequences over.
And also, how to keep this from happening in the future.
John

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