Lost channel strips

I'm using Logic Studio 8, mostly working with software instruments. I just opened one of my project files, and it appears that many of my channel strips and software instrument settings have been lost. A few of the channel strips, and a few of the software instrument settings are still correct, but most of them have switched to apparently random settings. Any ideas about this? Please help!

I'm using v. 2.2.2, but when I select the volume pedal at the concert level to call up the Screen Control Inspector, everything on the Attributes tab is grayed out, disabled. I'm going to guess that is because the pedal is unmapped at that level. When I go to the set level of an oft-used set and choose the pedal, the Attributes tabs items are not disabled, supposedly because I have the controller set for Block (because I use sliders to control volume here, not the pedal, and didn't want it messing things up).
In summary, it appears that in order to do what you have suggested and what lifenoise suggested -- "You can set the preferences at the concert level and override the parent mapping on a patch by patch basis" -- I have to, at the concert level, do something with a particular controller other than leave it unmapped. Even if I have it set for Block at the concert level, a bit of playing with this just now shows that I can override the blocking at the set level.
Thanks fellows. I suppose that wraps up this thread unless you have some additional feedback.

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