Lost Log & Transfer information

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Was logging clips in Log & Transfer from firewire drive. Had dragged many clips to queue to batch with the intention of actually importing them on another machine. I saved my project, and was hitting appleS every 5 clips or so. FCP quit unexpectedly (its never expected) and when I reopened the clips were gone. Tried restoring; no help. Tried two different auto-save projects; no help.
Again, hadn't done anything except log a lot of clips and place them in the queue. Can ANYONE help me recover them, or are they gone in the ether? BTW, have been on hold with Applecare for almost 1/2 an hour.
Should have done it on an Avid...
Thanks in advance.
D

Thanks, David. I was hoping that comment would be taken in the spirit in which it was intended. Obviously, I'm using FCP for the right reasons. Just don't know it very well, yet. Hence my mistake:
I talked to a tech at apple care who told me that when using "Log & Transfer" (NOT Log & Capture) you do not record any of the metadata until you actually transfer the clips. In other words, you can't add a bunch of clips to the queue and come back later and transfer them. If you close FCP without running the transfer you lose all clip information that you've collected.
In this instance I was logging clips from a LaCie external drive loaded with P2 media, attached to the MacBook via firewire.
So the bottom line is that I wasn't using the software correctly, which is 99 times out of 100 the case with problems like these.
Appreciate the help, and pardon the sloppy posting, but I was trying to get my client back up and running. So, for future reference, I'll include it.
Thanks,
D
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