I was nearing final completion of an FCE project then.......

I was nearing final completion of anFCE project that I have been involved with for over a year and thenthe unthinkable happened. The project was at the 99.9% completionstage so I wanted to output it to DVD and have the general publicgive me some feedback.
I had FCE output a quicktime movie.
**Now here is the first thing that Iforgot what I did.. I either clicked hide FCE or I quit FCE.
I then opened Toast Titanium anddragged the project to it and clicked the button to make the DVD.
**For the first time Toast did notrecognize that there was an external DVD burner connected so I usedthe internal burner.
Toast completed the DVD and I could notget it to eject the DVD.
I could not force quit any program...In fact force quit did not recognize any programs active besides'finder'.
I could not shut down the computer.When the shut down command was clicked it just did nothing. Even whenyou held the power up button in it did **** down but when pressedagain it acted like it was in a sleep mode not off.
I had to shut the power off, to shutthe computer down.
When I restarted the FCE desktopproject icon had changed from a black box with FCE in it to thestandard FCE icon with the project name under it. When you opened itit was to an earlier edition of the project, about 7-8 months ago. Ican not find any FCE project folder that does not point back to thisearlier edition. I assume that all the current clips, V/o, stills,music etc are still on the drive but I can not figure how to get tothe latest edition of the project.
I do use 'time machine' but it backs uponly the internal drive so I do not think that it will be of use. AndI do not want to restore it to an earlier system until I am sure thatthere is no way to resurrect the FCE project folder for the latestedition.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. I am not a professional. I do this in a cabin in the remote Alaskanwoods for my pleasure, sanity and hopefully one day recognition.
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Final Cut Express has an Autosave feature.  Hopefully you had it set in preferences to autosave a copy of your project file at reasonable intervals.  Look in the Autosave Vault (location is also set in preferences) and try opening the most recent Autosave copy of that project.
In addition to Autosave, it';s always a good idea to regularly backup any current project files to another volume.
-DH

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