Offline media, can't reconnect

I have a MacBook Pro 17", Mac OSX10.4.11, FCE 4.0.1, Lacie hard drive with firewire.
So close to being finished with this project! Hit the Fire Wire connections and it disconnected from the computer. Only a few items in the timeline were offline. Went through reconnect procedure. Automatically found the files. Hit "connect", but nothing happens to the files. Interesting, some (not all) of the offline clips in timeline are not offline when I go to their "bins", so I deleted and replaced these clips. But I can't reconnect the others. I did try rendering "all" but they are still offline (in timeline and in bins). Would forcing a rebuild using this method http://www.fcpbook.com/Video3.html help or not?
Any suggestions?

Thanks for answering! I've read everything and nothing seems to help. I've pretty much given up!
I only changed the name of each subclip, as I made it. When I click on the individual offline clips, in my timeline and click to reconnect, the computer takes me directly to the location of the original stored clip, with it's original name. When I click on "choose", it lists it and I have a the choice to click on "connect", but when I do, nothing happens. Just stays offline.
I've worked on several other FCE projects and never had this problem. Feel like I've finally got the program somewhat understood. I have moved on and re-captured the media that was offline. I have pretty much decided, I'm too frustrated to continue using FCE, in the future.

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