Is there any way to manually relink media in FCS?

Question

We recently transitioned from NFS to AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) for our shared storage in our FCS environment.
There have been a couple of headaches involved, but it has been a largely smooth transition except for one problem.
A couple of our assets (some of the most important ones, naturally) had colons ( : ) in the filenames. This was fine for NFS - the backing store's filesystem could handle them. But AFP cannot since apparently OS X considers the colon an unusable character in file names due to its own directory requirements.
So we are left with a handful of assets that are fully annotated in FCS, comprehensive metadata, etc. that show the original media files as missing. The files are there - they were just renamed automatically by the system to replace the colon.
I am wondering if there is any way to tell FCS that the filename has changed since there is no possible way that I can change the filename back.
If I have to get my hands dirty on the FCS command line to accomplish this, I am not hesitant to do so. I just don't know how to go about doing it...
A bit about my system:
Apple Xserve running Snow Leopard (10.6.3)
Final Cut Server version 1.5.2
The backing stores are presented via AFP using Netatalk from a Linux-based storage array (I know this unconventional but it actually works quite well - except the "no colons in AFP or Apple native filenames" issue...)
If there is anyone out there who can shed some light on this, I would really appreciate it!
Thank you all!

Answer 1

Thank you for the clarification.
Indeed you are correct - the Netatalk documentation merely implies that the colon is a forbidden Mac OS character - not a forbidden Netatalk character.
Netatalk itself (at least in my case on Ubuntu 10.04) does handle the translation of the colon in a way that is comprehensible to Mac OS.
The colon was truncated to a double-quote (") when I attempted the rename on the Linux command line. After seeing this, I renamed the file again on the Linux command line to remove the colon.
When using the Mac OS command line (terminal), I was able to get the file to reflect a colon:
$ cp ./file.mov ./file\ duration\ 10\:00.mov
While the Finder will not permit a colon in the filename under any circumstances (at least not as far as I can tell), the command line will permit it if you use the escape character (\).
In the Finder, the new file shows as "file duration 10/00.mov" but if you run an "ls" on the command line it shows as "file duration 10:00.mov" which is correct.
In Linux, it shows as "file duration 10:2f00.mov" so Netatalk handled the markup in such a way that it is able to present the correct filename to the Mac OS.
Despite the Finder/Terminal name mismatch (the filename having a "/" in the Finder display), FCS is perfectly happy, since it reads the filename directly.
And if you don't want to get your hands dirty on the command line, using a forward-slash (/) in the filename within the FInder does translate to a colon when you view the file from the terminal, as was described by slowfranklin above. (I am from a Unix background where the slash is a (sometimes the only) forbidden character, so I also used the command-line method just to see if it would work)
Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.
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Message was edited by: Jeff.M.Taylor