Opening Project in 2 computers

I have an HDV project with about 50 hours worth of footage on an external SATA drive.  Sometimes I edit using premiere CS4 on my desktop and sometimes on my laptop. What changes do I need to make so that when I open the project it doesn't need to be reindexed and reconformed etc. everytime I open it on either computer?

Do this on both your desktop and your notebook:
Right click on 'My Computer', select 'Manage', select 'Disk Management' and then select the eSATA disk (like this Freecom in the picture below). Then in the lower pane right click on the disk and select properties and select 'Change drive letter', like shown below:
When you have done this on both machines, you should be OK. Your other settings seem right too.

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