Reconnect media links lost

"Media Offline" message appears spontaneously in my timeline on several frames (@15 in 54 min video). The media file there on my external HD where it's always been. I can find it. When I go to reconnect, the message in Search is: " is missing. This is new! Somehow it doesn't see or know the file name although it is on the frame (such as "scan003"). What is going on? It has been doing this for about three weeks and getting worse and at first it did recognize the file and I was able to reconnect the link by hand, but even then it would lose the connection the next time I opened the program or spontaneously-probably with autosave. FCP5, Dual G4, 10.4.5 Seemed to start with the OSX automatic update from Apple and got especially bad with the last one this week. That's about when the "is missing message began to show up.

i have exactly the same problem. On one of our 3 systems projects seem to gradually be becoming infected with this problem, and i think it makes it impossible to reconnect media once it has forgotten the clip names.
i have tried trashing preferences and still seems to be happening.
another person has this problem here: http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=885666
But in my case it is happening with entire sequences. When trying to reconnect the "Files to reconnect" window simply says:
Offline Files:
" is missing.
and nothing else.
We had a G-RAID drive self destruct recently and perhaps this has caused some corruption somewhere, but this is a new project with sequences copied in from systems that were fine.
G5 powermac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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