Launching Difficulty, DVDSP trying to find purposely deleted file

I recently deleted some .mov files from my external drive to free some space. Since then, I have been unable to work in DVDSP because as soon as it launches, a window pops up that reads, "Searching for movie data in file "Horses_1". When I push the provided "Stop" button it then pops up a window that reads, "The movie file 'horses_1' can not be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly."
I can do nothing in the program because these two windows keep popping back up, despite me clicking "Cancel". I trashed that file on purpose. It is not needed for any present or future projects.
How do I get around this and able to work in DVDSP again? And how do I clear the video tab of the palette so it doesn't do it with other deleted files?
Suggestions welcome, Didn't mean to be so lengthy but wanted to be comprehensive, Thank You.
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Usually, a missing Quicktime file will allow you to click cancel, open the project, and remove the asset from the item that uses it.
However, you are getting the "without this file the movie cannot play properly" message - this means that you have created a Quicktime reference movie and removed the media file referenced by that movie. ("Make Self-Contained" was uncheked at the time you exported this movie.) In this case, the reference movie has been imported to DVDSP and is not officially "missing", but Quicktime is generating this error when it tries to relink to the media referenced by the quicktime reference movie.
You can move, rename, or delete this reference movie. You might as well delete it, since the media for it is now gone. Once the reference movie, which the acutal asset in your DVDSP Project, is gone, DVDSP should follow it's normal behavior for a missing asset, and allow you to click cancel and open the project.

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