Messing up when reconnect media

Dear All,
I always use reconnect media function, as we have 2-3 editors working at the same time on different machine and even locations. Everything goes well until connecting STP files.
Now we are close to the end of the project and have been sending sound files to STP for sweetening. The problems is when we reconnect those STP files on another machine (of course, we copied all the media files to another machine as well), FCP connects to wrong files and has different sound from another take.
What's wrong? Please help.
Thanks.
King

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