Sharing projects with an FCP user

I'm editing a bunch of game videos with another team parent. She's been using FCP, but is a newbie to that program. She's done a lot of editing on her material. She is using a single DV camera, has done done relatively simple editing (transitions, speed change, titles). I'm using FCE, and want to import her files and finish editing on my computer with my HDV and DV footage.
I read in a previous post something about exporting as XML. Can anyone provide more input on that?
Would it make sense for her to export as a self contained quicktime, and edit from that (realizing I can un-edit things like composites, text, etc.)?
I assume I could grab her capture files and at least not have to re capture, but maybe that isnt' even a lot of help.
any adivce would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chuck

I assume the XML contains the editing commands but not the media. When she first started doing this, she had just gotten FCP and didn't understand the need for naming files. So apparently a number of her videos reference "untitled" in folder "untitiled" and a scattered hither and yon on her hard disk. I was thinking that it would be worthwhile to go to a project, select a clip, reveal in finder, rename, and reconnect.
My plan is to go to her place with an empty 250GB hard drive and copy all the necessary files to that, then come home and go from there.

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