'Media Offline' Thumbnails Are Wrong

I accidentally powered down my external scratch disk before closing Final Cut 5. All the media went offline but I reattached everything fine. However, the thumbnails on the clips in the timeline and browser still have that red 'media offline' pic on them. Normally I wouldn't care but it's a project where the thumbnails in the browser and timeline are very useful. I've trashed the prefs and rebooted, etc.
Anyone know how to get my thumbs back?

Quit FCP.
Go to the Documents folder, then Final Cut Pro Documents, then Thumbnail Cache Files. Trash the two files in that folder, THumbnail Cache and Thumbnail data.
Launch FCP.
Shane

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