Saving issues with FCP 5.1.4

I have recently been finding that when I save my work only some of it is saving. For instance, Thursday I added a bunch of work to my sequence and things that I did earlier in the day did not save but things that I did later on in the day did save. There is no clear reasoning to me behind the things that are saving and those that are not. Some transitions, new footage and new audio saved. While on the other hand some new audio, transitions and new footage were lost. The same thing happened on Friday when I finished putting all the changes that were lost back in and saved, I opened it today and it was gone again. Even the autosave files only have some of the new work in it and not everything that was done.
I am also finding that the black and red designated for "media offline" is appearing on my video clips in my sequence. They are not offline though. And one some of the clip images the black and red only covers parts of the clip image in the sequence. But they still play fine. It never indicates when playing that the files are "offline." I have even tried to create a new project and sequence and copy and paste everything into the new project.
Any suggestions?
Dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  
Dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Are you sure that you haven't change the name or location that you are saving to... in other words, is it possible you saved multiple copies of this project with different names?
As for the "black and red" image in the timeline, sounds like the clip may be offline, but FCP is still connected to and playing back a render file. You might try deleting the existing render files and Render Cache.
If the weirdness persists, you might also try trashing FCP Preferences. Download FCP Rescue to help with this. First time you use it, backup, then trash preferences, do not restore.
rh

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