"No Movie in File" & GENERAL ERROR messages

I'm using FCP 6.0.3, QT 7.4.5, Mac OS X 10.4.11
I'm running the OS and FCP from my main internal HD,
The audio files from my second internal drive
The Video Files from an external LaCie FW-800 1.2TB drive
I've been editing this huge project for close to a year now. I was 24hr to completion when this fu&?*&?% problem came up. My job is split into projects each with it's own sequence. I've been working on these sequences regularly without problem. Today I open the 4th project and try to render everything that isn't rendered. When I do, I get this message: "No Movie in File". If I place my playhead over it, some parts show up in the canvas, others don't (I just see the last image that updated on the canvas). If I press play over the un-rendered clip I get "GENERAL ERROR" without any numbers next to the message. All my other projects work fine.
I tried the following:
Repaired my disk permissions
Trashing FCP's user data pref files.
Rebuilding the directory on my audio and video scratch disks
I trashed the render files for that sequence
I tried opening a 1 week old back up copy of the sequence (same)
I created a new project with a new sequence and copying my other sequence's content into it.
Nothing has worked so far. I'm looking at a couple of MONTHS of work if I have to re-create this...

I think this will work to find out if there are any offline clips in your sequence. Select the sequence in the browser, choose reconnect and make sure only "offline" clips are enabled.
A few other possibilities: Are you using any graphic files? If so, if they are cmyk, that's the problem. Are you using any reference (non selfcontained quicktimes?). If so, you may have deleted or moved some of the files that are being referenced.
Oh yeah, one thing to try. Select the sequence in the browser (or make the timeline active) and hit command-zero. Change the codec to animation. Everything will need to be rendered, but will the sequence play now? If so, try changing the codec back to it's original state and pray.
Message was edited by: Michael Grenadier
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