Roundtrip between FCP and Color

Having much trouble doing a round trip from FCP to color. Sent my sequence to color rendered and saved and tried to send back to FCP but the new sequence from color says all the media offline. I made a new sequence and deleted all the effects, etc and sent to color again but the same problem occurs. All the media is offline. Tried exporting the XML file from color and importing directly into FCP but I get this error:
Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 5:03 PM - Errors Found Importing GTF.xml
<xmeml>: Unknown element <sourceprojecturl> encountered.( line 4 )
Any ideas on what the problem is? The sequence I sent to color has several multiclips and these seem to be the only media offline when I roundtrip back to FCP.
Thanks,
Brittany

The error message you received can be safely ignored.
RE: Multiclip
Please do a forum search on the keyword "multiclip". You'll find plenty of recent discussion on it.
- pi

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