Rendering question, part 2!

I was trying to clean up my projects in FCP, and in doing so I moved the render folder around. Now I'm having problems with Compressor.
When I try to export using Compressor, I get the spinning pinwheel. I have to 'force quit' out of compressor and then I get the message that media files (the render files) have went offline.
I try to reconnect and it says there are no files associated with the clip. Spotting my problem (moving render files folder), I thought it would be best to delete all my old render folders - any render folder - and I restarted the computer. I thought that a new render folder would appear when I re-opened FCP, which it did, and the problem would be solved. It's not.
I have an internal hard drive that I save all FCP files to. I'm working on 3 projects. In the new render files folder that was created when I re-rendered the video, it has each project listed. So why am I still having this problem?
In the preferences, I have all the media saving to the specified internal hard drive. There's plenty of room, so that's not an issue.
So now, there is only 1 folder for render files. In that folder, each project is listed. But yet, I still can't export to compressor with out it freezing on me and I have to 'force quit' out of compressor and I still get that message that some files went offline.
I emptied the trash, so the files aren't going to a folder in the trash bin.
Aargh - any ideas? I need to send off a project at the end of the day!

I'm with Nick on this. It takes no more time to export self-contained and you do not run into all these other issues.
Drive space is really, really cheap these days ... and my time isn't.
Cheers,
x

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