Render files hidden away - but where?

I have a laptop with several firewire external drives connected. I rendered a sequence in FCP5.04. I was told there was no more space on the selected hard drive, even though there appeared to be more than 6GB of space. Cancelling the warning and restarting the render several times eventually succeeded in acheiving the render. I now disconnected the laptop, and opened the same project from my desktop machine, which was now connected to the same external hard drives. I was told several render files were offline. The expected location of these was given as:
Laptop HD:Applications:FinalCutPro.app:Contents:MacOS:and then a folder with the project name
But where on earth is that? "Final Cut Pro" in the Apps folder is the app pure and simple - it does not have any folders with it. Searching with Spotlight found nothing.
However, if I now network my laptop into the system and relaunch the project, FCP finds those files on the Laptop HD and does not ask me to reconnect. Needless to say, launching the project from the laptop always finds the files.
I want to move the files to a location which is not on the laptop. How do I find them?
Many thanks
John

Locate your Final Cut Pro application. CONTROL-CLICK on it and select SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS. Now you can find the render file.
Odd bug this.
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