HELP - Premiere 6.5 destroyed my project !

[theReal]

I've been editing some Christmas stuff for the last two days - I'm here at my dad's computer that runs Premiere 6.5 only (cpu has no SSE, so no PPro).
I really put some effort in the video and it was really good when I was done about an hour ago.

Now I wanted to play the video to DV, opened Premiere but that f*** of a program has lost everything in the timeline!! All it shows in the clip bin is "-1" for what had been the source video clips and "45789988" for what had been the imported audio clips. :angry: :angry: :angry:

I also tried all five safety copies that Premiere had made but they show the same crap: "-1" for the source clips and nothing there in the timeline.

Is there a way to recover the project or have I been working in vain for the last two days???

## Edit ##
I found the cause of the problem: I had imported vbr mp3 files into the project. It works perfectly at first, but it totally screws up your project in the way I described. As soon as you close it you're screwed... :angry: :angry:

Still, does anyone know a way to recover a project from this problem?
In the meantime, I'm going to re-create the whole thing - now that I know what shots to use I think I'm going to finish it in less thana day instead of two days, grrrrrr :angry: :angry:

[communist]

Project files are plain text - try opening them in Notepad and remove the entries for the 'bad files' and see if Premiere likes that more. Dont know what you could do else - never had a such a problem and when then the backups always worked to some degree.

[theReal]

Thanks for the reply - I couldn't test your suggestion because I edited the whole thing new and deleted the broken project. I think your suggestion could have worked though (now I am back home with Premiere Pro 1.5 so I don't want to install Premiere 6.5 to prove that theory, but I'll keep it in mind for the next time I accidentally drop VBR mp3s in Premiere 6.5 :D ;) )