General Error and Out of Memory Error - affecting multiple projects

I am running Final Cut Pro 6 on my 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 iMac, with 1.25 GB RAM. OS X 10.4.11.
I have had this setup for more than a year and used it without any problems.
I have two projects stored on an external LaCie firewire drive with more than 140GB disk space remaining. As of this morning, I cannot work on either of them: both are throwing the "General Error" message, and one of them is also telling me it's "Out of Memory". On project #1, the "Out of Memory" occurs whenever I try to open a clip in the viewer, following a "General Error" message. On project #2, the "General Error" message occurs when I try to open the project; it gets halfway through the process and then throws the error, leaving me unable to open the timeline.
Both projects are short, less than 3 minutes long, and neither project contains any CMYK or grayscale graphics. Project #2 does have a short Motion sequence.
Things I have tried:
~ restarting and hard-rebooting
~ trashing preferences
~ rebuilding permissions
~ trashing render files
~ creating a new project
~ searching this forum and Google for other answers
Help?

Thanks for the support, Jim. I've had terrible experiences with Firewire drives in the past, too; regrettably, there doesn't seem to be an affordable alternative at this point.
I just looked up resetting the PMU, as that's not something I've done before. I really hope it's that simple, as the thought of recreating all these clips makes my head hurt. But I'll definitely try your suggestion of reconnecting individual media files first. I've been through that before.

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