Will compound clips honor the project settings?

Hi,
When I created my compound clips I created then from proxy files at 2K. Now I have gone through all the compound clips and replaced the proxy files with the master 4K files, but to my horror I have discovered that the clips all have individual clip settings, which remain at their old proxy dimensions (2K). Furthermore I have been unable to edit the clip settings for multiple clips (I don't welcome spending my night going through all 300 clips again!).
My project is set to 4K and render type as Prores 4444; if I drop the clips on the timeline, will they honor the project settings or will they remain 2K?
I don't really get what this behavior is for. Wouldn't you want all the clips in a project to render to the same format?

As Tom asks, how did you manage to work with 2K proxies that are not linked?
If you import the 4K masters into FCPX and ask it to generate proxies, you can swap back and forth, automatically!
Preferences: Playback: Playback settings..
If you've done the proxies manually, you have to manually change them..

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Revision: 7801
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-06-12 14:38:25 -0700 (Fri, 12 Jun 2009)
Log Message:
Submit on behalf of Pete - an update to the project settings for the flex4test project, the link type was wrong.
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tests: compile & run
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