Why are my render files INSIDE my FCE app?!!!

I am really puzzled. I've let this massive video project of animated stills, narration, and sound effects sit for a year. The files got on two machines and when I went to work on it while traveling, it was quite a job to gather it together onto my laptop.
I had some bugs in the narration that just wouldn't mixdown correctly until I manually pulled out some duplicate files that were competing. They would come back as before due to some cache/backup system. I finally rendered the offending sequences until they worked properly.
Now, after I had gotten Episode 1 to the place where I could burn it to a DVD (it is 55 minutes long), I found I had no headroom on the main disc (I started this project on my present laptop seven years ago and I kept using FCE 2 until the project is finished (hopefully, very soon! There are three episodes @ 55 minutes).
This is the home stretch and I want to get it into shape to pass it onto others to modify as needed. When I used Omni Disksweeper to find where I could reduce the files on my main disc, there was a big lump coming from my FCE application! I had to open the database packaging and, lo and behold, there were sequence files right there!!! How can that be?!!!
So, my question, here, is mainly this one:
1. How can I find all the files that FCE is using for this episode of 7 sequences so that I can hand them over with FCE 2.0.3 to those who are going to modify it for other applications at a future date? As you can see above, these files have ended up in the strangest places and I don't have a list that takes me back to all the rendered root files! They are scattered. How do I know which ones to gather and from where?

Well, Tom, this is quite the anomaly, then. I wish I could post a picture of these two files in the actual FCE application package! It is both the Audio & Video Render folders with rendered sequences! Totally bizarre (I could post a picture of it to you). If you open the FCE application, you get the Content folder >MacOS folder>Final Cut Express with the render folders along side of it!
Anyway, I can easily move them out of there to the appropriate folders and then reconnect the media. I will take your advice after exporting the episode into the needed formats and leave the rendered files behind when passing it over to awaiting hands (it will greatly lighten the data load!).
Your advice is to gather the important files and folders which have the underlying media (e.g. scans, sound effects, and narration) and the instructional FCE Project File. Thank you for bringing me back to task! And if you want that snapshot of this bizarre event, I'll send it! Totally baffling...

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