Missing clips

I'm running FCP 4.5 on my G4 PowerBook. Every once in a while when I open an existing project I get the notice "Missing clip so and so." This has been an on going problem with me since I started FCP. I just don't seem to be able to understand where things are stored and what it is I'm doing to lose/mis-place them.
Typically I do a "Capture Now" Option during my log and capture of incoming video. I then edit it in the Viewer and take it to the timeline. I store all FCP media on a designated scratch external 100Gb HD.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
PowerBook 17" and a beautiful G4 Cube. Mac OS X (10.4.8) 60 Gb Video iPod, 2Gb Black Nano/Nike+

this error really gets me 'upset' when exporting 1 sequence from a project with only a dozen sequences or so and _somewhere, in one of those timelines, one of those that you really really don't need for any other reason than historical archive matters, there is a reference to a file that is no longer in its original place .....
if only fcp would look at what you've _actually used in the sequence you are exporting and complain when something is missing there, not in the rest of the project ....
</rant>
sorry, long standing issue with overnight renders that are waiting for you to click "ok" in the morning from just 2 minutes after you left the night before....

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