Project won't open even in autosave

I have a project I am working on that is due early this week I am half way into it and now I can't get it to open. The problem seems to be that I did not save it on my desktop. Even in autosave it is not opening up. I had it set to autosave every 10 minutes. It just says unable to open this file. I have many hours into this project an really cannot afford to start over! Any suggestions?
The scratch disk was set as to the desktop with the two lacie hard drives as back up. The waveform cache, thumbnail, and autosave are all set to one of my lacie hard drives, and I had the master save to the same hard drive as that also.
thanks!

When I double-click on the Project File, or open it from within FCE (File > Open) I immediately get the error message "Unable to open the project file." The error box just sits there until cancelled. FCE does not crash. The file consists solely of four stills, some .jpg and some .psd, all edited in Photoshop.
I have now reproduced the fault in a new test project file (PAL) with one still, with one layer only, no transparency, created in Photoshop. If it is a .psd file the fault occurs; if a .jpg it does not. Although I have used stills edited in Photoshop in other projects many times, on examining them I find that all are .jpg or .tif. So it seems that FCE cannot handle a .psd file in PAL, and that the recently discussed problem of transparency in a .psd file is only part of the problem.
Tom: If others confirm this wider problem, perhaps with your clout as resident guru you could contact Apple formally and get them to cure this apparently long-established fault. Failure to even open a project file after use of an image made in the world's premier image editing software is a very serious bug and could cost users a huge amount of grief. Also, it is the sort of (ignored) bug expected of the worst freeware.
Again, if confirmed, it would be helpful if a permanent warning could be posted on this forum.
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