General Error opening project won't go away

This is really bad. I'm supposed to show the current cut of my 15 minute movie tomorrow, but FCE HD 3.5.1 shows a General Error when I try to open my project. Not just my current project, but for all project files in my Autosave Vault and most project files in the Trash, too.
Here's my setup:
MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.9
FCE HD 3.5.1
Project File stored locally
Scratch disk on an external Firewire hard disk
Nothing about my setup has changed since I started this project
All of a sudden this afternoon I got the dreaded "General Error."
Open my project with the media disk unmounted and unplugged: General Error
Trash the preferences folder and com.apple... file: General Error
Reinstall FCE HD 3.5.1: General Error
What else is there to do? Suggestions for how I can recover my project file without recreating it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
john

Tom,
Your suggestions in email to me didn't solve my problem, exactly, but got me thinking along the lines that did solve my problem. Thank-you very much.
Bottom line: this is probably a bad practice (I'm an iMovie veteran, but a FCE newbie), but I had media spread in three different places. Video was on the external firewire scratch disck, some jpeg's were copied to the same folder (or subfolder) as the project file, and (the killer) some files were left on a server computer on the LAN.
At some point I had disconnected from the server and FCE freaks out over that. Rather than giving a "missing media" alert like it does for a detached media or scratch disk, it gives an unhelpful "General error."
Lesson learned: when opening a project file, be sure you are connected to any and all servers on your LAN from which you may have imported media, like pictures.
Thanks, Tom!
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