Totally bizarre XDCAM HD + FCP import question

I have filmed 40+ discs on XDCAM HD 50GB discs at 50MBs. These were then logged and captured using Sony's XDCAM pluggin for Final Cut Pro 6.5.
When the project file was taken on the drive with all the media etc and plugged into a macPro pro (2 x 2.26Ghz quad core 8GB ram) the project file could not see 1052 of the media files and asked to reconnect them. Something I didn't want to have to do for each file!
I then shot another job using XDCAM HD but this time at 35mbs per
second and on 23GB disks. Again it was logged on site using the laptop and again the desktop failed to recognise the
media for 626 out of 2685 shots.
I have updated the desktop to FCP 7.0.1. and it still doesn't see
them. I tried my friend’s desktop and it can't see these files either.
The files that can't be seen are in the lower part of the browser
which is in alphabetical rather than disc order (i.e. imported at totally random times). However there is
also a bin full of shots from just one disc at the bottom of the
browser and none of those files can be seen either.
When the projects are returned to the laptop that logged and captured them – it can see everything.
Not sure what to do
Does FCP have a limit on the number of files associated with a project? Or a reason why it would fail to see such a large number of files?
I am truly in the dark on this.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Jasper

I haven’t responded in a while but I haven’t been lazy on this as I’ve been trying out a range of options.
Firstly I have tried the projects on another high spec Desktop and it refused to link the last third (roughly) of media as before.
Reconnecting the media files also doesn’t work.
You can find them using ‘Locate’ or ‘search’ but then once you click on the file it doesn’t appear in the ‘Files Located’ box below as it should it just disappears from the list of files to be found.
Is it a memory problem?
Clearly it is a large project and sometimes FCP can’t play the files it is showing in the browser because it is out of memory.
But I have a DVCPRO HD project that is 3 times as big at 1.5 TB which opens and plays perfectly well.
It also fails to see the files even if they have been put away in lots of separate bins.
Which brings us back to the original bizarre point of the question.
Why does it open and play OK on a laptop with less memory and less processing speed?
And why is it not connecting the final third of the media?
And why does this group of 1051 to 1061 unconnected/offline files change according to how they are arranged in the browser i.e. final third alphabetically or final third in reel order etc etc.
Please can anyone suggest any other avenues for me to try … it is driving me crazy.
Cheers
Jasper

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