Projects Containing Clips From Many Events

Hi,
I am hoping that someone can help me solve a problem I am having with my archiving of events and projects in Final Cut Pro X.
Here is my set up… In the office I have a 27" iMac running 10.8.2 and a Mac Pro (Just acquired second hand as a server/import machine) running 10.7.5. and my second editor also occasionally uses his 15" 2012 MacBookPro.
I have just moved over to using a raid array for my storage, and for working directly from. (4 icy boxes, 2 for working from and 2 as backups for the working drives).  
What I hope to do is have each event and corresponding projects in a sparse image bundle that can be mounted on each computer individually and worked on from there.
Here is the crux of the problem and my question.
Many of my projects refer to more than one event, usually to my 'master video' or 'master audio' events which hold my commonly used b roll, stock shots, stock music etc. but also when doing multiple videos for the same client over time, I can end up using bits and pieces from many events to create the video I need.
What I need is to find a way to have all this media in the one sparse image bundle WITHOUT having to have each additional event copied into the sparse bundle (as that would be a massive waste of space) . I don't think that the 'duplicate project + used clips only' will suit as we usually have to make many changes to the videos to suit the corporate clients we deal with, and these changes can occur months down the line hence deleting files that are not in use currently could be needed months from now.
'Consolidate' or 'Organise' files doesn't seem to work as it is happy as long as the media is on the same drive, but I need it to copy all the extra files into a particular event folder.
What I'm looking to do is have all the referenced clips in the same folder as the actual event I am working on so that I can take one sparse bundle and edit it on any of the machines without those lovely missing file/event warnings showing up.
Apart from importing each of the individual clips into the event manually is there a way to do this?
Thanks for your help.

double post...can't find a way to delete one:/

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