The old FCP not opening thing

I am again faced with FCP not opening. I did have it working earlier today but the cable connecting my external HD popped out of the USB socket. Since that its refused to open. Ive tried to open without the external HD attached and ive used FCP rescue. In the past a ditch of the plist followed by disk utility{repair disk permissions has seemed to work but this isnt budging. Any ideas out there as to what has become corrupted? i treid also to open resetting the scratch at the prompt, changing them to the hard drive but that didnt work either.

Thanks for the advice,
Ive used this drive nearly exclusively on my Mac and only recently started using it as a capture scratch for FCP. Ive used it recently to copy my i tunes folder to another second MAC but its rarely been in a pc and then only for music. I didnt consiously format it for a PC
The project file in question is on the external (Lacie 250). I can see it all and open it, the icon is on the desktop
Ill try the Autosave tomorrow,ive tried to open other projects from internal and external locations with no success.
I captured via firewire from a camera. To get this work done done i was thinking of moving the drive to another Mac but you think the drive is the problem?
Can the capture scratch from the lacie still be used? I omported files from my external drives FCP capture scratch using iMovie today no problems.
Hope this helps

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This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
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