Media Manager mangled my slo-mo clips

I used Media Manager for the first time to copy a project and it mangled all of my slo-mo clips. I had several clips that were set at 30% and after I opened the newly created project, all of the slo-mo clips had random speed settings from 90% to 250%.
My project timeline is hosed. What happened?

You might be able to see my ignorance in this but what if I sent the sequence to Color and then rendered out the clips to the other drive. Would that work? There aren't any stills or graphics in the timeline. Just text that I'd be willing to redo anyway.

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