Premiere CS4 unlinking and ungrouping video on close

I'm working on a video editing terminal running Premiere CS4 v4.2.1. You can do any sort of grouping, linking or unlinking of video clips that you want, but as soon as you close the program (and then go back to it later), all of the clips are unlinked from their respective components (audio and video are unlinked) and any groupings you made are now gone.
What's weird, though, is any clip that you don't touch (ie you don't group it with something else) is fine when you reload the project (the audio and video clips are still linked together like they should be, but ONLY if it wasn't grouped).
All the video is on the local, internal hard drive. The scratch disks are also on the internal hard drive. The computer is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Any ideas?

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