Project opens/closes immediately

I have a couple of project files that will open just long enough for me to glimpse the timeline and browser data then it closes with the message that Final Cut has closed unexpectedly (the same old "closed unexpectedly" notice you get for anything like that). I can tell that the information is there including all my edits and sequences.
Does anyone have a trick or tool to help restore these project files?

Its a tricky one for sure.
The fact that the app and project opens long enough to display for just a moment suggests that its not a corruption problem with the project file itself. I was hoping that by taking the media offline you could force FCP to load the project despite what I assumed to be a source media or render file corruption, but if you've already eliminated ALL the source video and audio media, stills, graphic elements, music tracks and all the audio and video render files etc then that seems not to be the case.
What might be happening is that FCP is crashing as soon as it tries to display the contents of the video under the playhead in the open sequence, but rather than corrupt media/renders causing the crash it might be a filter trying to render at the playhead position that is causing it ... are you using any third party filters in your piece?
Do you have anything else info wise that you could add to the puzzle? At what point did these project files stop working? Are they old projects from earlier versions of FCP? If so, how old?
On another tack, do you have any old backups or autosaves of this project that you can still open, if so, at what point in your edit do they stop working? Do you remember what you did that day that might give a clue as to the problem? Did you suffer any power outage, unexpected crash or anything that could possibly have corrupted any of your data?
If you like, go ahead and zip up your project file and drop it onto my iDisk and I'll take a look and see if I can open it over here. You can access my iDisk public folder from your Go menu in the Finder ... choose *Go > iDisk > Other User's Public Folder...* and enter andymees as the Member Name
Andy

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