Re-indexing Footage

Hi, I use Adobe Premiere CS3. I have a fairly large project with about 5 hours of RAW footage, all cut down to about 10 minutes on the time line (interviews etc...) I haven't moved the destination folder or the folder itself from it's place on the hard drive from the last time I opened the project (about 5 months ago). Everything is still within the same folder, and I opened it today and it has to re-index everything. Would anyone know why that is? After a certain amount of time, does PPro have to redo this, or is there a setting somewhere that I can change. I've been looking everywhere on-line, but I hope someone here can help me stop this from happening in the future.
Thanks very much
James Poremba

You must have moved some of the other files, like preview files or CFA files.

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