Premiere Pro CS4 loss of files and crash

Hi folks,
Hoping somebody on here can help me. I'm a student editing my final project for my Master's degree and I've come up against a pretty large problem that I can't understand.
I've been editing for about 2 months, perfectly happily, no major issues other than a problem transcoding HD footage to SD. Had to use two file formats in the end as no transcoder seemed to want to process half of the footage. Anyway, as a result my project is made up of about half .avi files and half .mp4 files and here begins the problem...
As I've said, there had been no major problems editing with these two files in the same project, as you'd expect. However, today Premiere has suddenly "lost" the .mp4 files.
All that remains in their place is a black screen and a horrible, loud, electronic buzzing sound when played in the timeline. It is impossible to drag the .mp4 files from the project list to the editing screen. The .avi files still work fine.
No files have been moved or deleted. The file paths are exactly the same as they have been since day one of the edit.
The troublesome .mp4 files are still listed in the project window on the left of the screen, so I thought it'd simply be a case of right-clicking and re-linking them to the source files. However, the instant the file is right-clicked a dialog box flashes up saying there is a serious error and Premiere needs to close.
Any ideas?
Here are a couple of screen shots of the problem, the troublesome .mp4 files are circled in red in the first shot. The second is of the error message after right clicking the file on the left hand side.
Hope somebody can help!

Hi Robodog,
Downloaded GSpot. Not sure it has been much help though. Codec status result was "undetermined". Here's the screen shot.
Will happily upload an MP4 for somebody to look at. Think Vimeo should allow you to download the source file once I've uploaded it. Putting one of the shortest ones up. It is viewable here.
Have tried putting faulty MP4s in a new project this morning. No luck. MP4s imported but were not recognised correctly. No visual, just an endless black screen. No audio at all, not even the option to drag the audio to the timeline when in the edit window, which was puzzling. The files shouldn't have changed but obviously have somehow. Or at Least Pr thinks they have. They still work 100% ok in all video players I have and when uploaded to video hosting sites.
Here's a screen shot of the new project attempt.
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