How do I fix a project that won't open?

I have a few Final Cut Pro X projects that won't appear in the Project Library.
Here's a link to the file, could someone try opening it on there system to see if it works for them?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nswzlfw285ys936/CurrentVersion.fcpproject
I'm on FCP X 10.0.9 running on OS X 10.8.5.
A few facts:
I beleive the .fcpproject file is corrupt somehow.
I have projects named "Draw_01" through "Draw_13", but all the projects after "Draw_10" don't show up.
Since each new project began as a duplicate of the last, I believe that some sort of corruption must have happened when I created Draw_11.
I'm pretty sure that it's not related to the names themselves since I played around with renaming working and non-working projects with no change.
Each time FCP X opens now, it asks to update projects to the latest version. I say Okay and yet next time I open the program it asks again.
I see no error messages. I only notice that the projects in question don't show up.
The Old Version folder on the problem projects are filled with over 126 files wheras the working projects only have 4 or 5.
Almost all of those 126 Old Versions files are the same size (8.1 MB) with the same date (Oct 10, 2012 9:11 PM).
And a new one is created every time FCP opens up and tries to update the version of said project. And it has the same date and size.
I've tried removing everything in the project folder and leaving only the .fcpproject file, to no avail.

Yes, I tried the Backup and I tried different projects from the Old Versions folder, to no avail.
As long as the file was the same size (8.1 MB) and therefore probably the same content, it wouldn't open. I tried an earlier project from the Old Versions folder that was smaller and it successfully opened. But of course it was missing most of the changes to the edit.
Obviously, at one point these all worked in a previous version of of FCP X, but along the way, maybe as it got converted by FCP for new versions, something got corrupted.

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