I need Help!!! Need to remove file from my project that I can't find

I'm on an extremely tight deadline and am trying to make a test DVD to show to client and am getting a strange message that takes me to a dead-end.
When I try to export using Quicktime Conversion, I get a message saying:
"The movie file "...FIN-00000075" cannot be found. Without this file the movie cannot play properly."
My options are Search or Cancel. Search takes me to my documents folder, where there is no sign of this file. When I use Spotlight to search for it, it finds it and opens it, and it is a window for Final Cut Express, which I haven't used in a couple of years and not at all on this project, since I upgraded to FCP.
Spotlight does not give me information about where the file is.
I really need to get this burned to DVD ASAP.
Any help would be appreciated.
J.

Hi Jim - I used to get this (weird render file prompt) as well back on fcp 4.5.
It would only occur when I opened one particular project.
However, afterward it would reoccur on opening any project. Weird, weird, weird ...
The only way I found to kill the prompt was to trash prefs - it wouldn't reoccur until I opened the problem project again.
Never could track it down - fcp Rescue was used often back then.

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