Premiere CS6 ignores preview files

I've just moved over from FCP to Premiere and I'm having some teething problems.
I have created an XDCAM HD 1080p timeline, made my film and graded it. I have then applied "Render Entire Workflow" so that I can watch the sequence without any dropped frames. The preview render files are saved in my documents folder on my machine. But after saving and reopening the project, I have to re-render the whole sequence again.
It's as if Pr can't find the preview files. The scratch disk is pointed to the right place and the files haven't been deleted.
Ha anyone got ideas on what's happening?
Thanks,
Dan
Computer specs:
Premiere CS6.0.5
MacOSX 10.6.8 3.2GHz Intel Core i3
12GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Update: After adding some audio to 5secs of the film, the whole film needs rendering again.

No I set the Preview files to my documents. The footage is stored on an Space server. Oringinally I had the preview files to follow the project, I had the same problem, so switched to keeping it locally.
The disk location for the Media cache is local(library/application support/adobe/common) but in a different place to the preview files. "save media cache files next to oringinals when possible" is unchecked. I'm not sure if any of this will have an effect?

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