Media Manger won't reconnect Merged Clips

I have a project that has tons of merged clips (Video synced to Audio .wav files). All is well within the project, but if I try to use Media Manager to copy media and duplicate it into a new project, it cannot reconnect the Merged Clips. Video comes through fine, but audio is missing --- getting an unknown error when trying to reconnect clips to the copied file. Any idea what might be going on here?
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A few other pieces of info that might help-- the clips DO have reel names (I notice lots of talk about Media Manager problems if there is no reel name). Also, if I try to Reconnect the .wav Audio file to the missing Audio in the New Project, I get a message saying there is not enough Media in the clip to Reconnect.
Also-- i'm running 6.0.2, perhaps there is a glitch in this version? I'm in the midst of a major project right now, and am extremely reluctant to upgrade until it's complete.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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