Firestore & P2 cards are corrupting my brain!

okay team. i'm looking at a couple of fun & exciting P2 problems.

FRITZY FIRESTORE: i recorded a crucial verite scene to a firestore with a loose-fitting firewire port. despite all efforts (which eventually included duct-taping the cable in place) the FS-100 lost connectivity every couple of minutes. i couldn't stop shooting to solve until later in the evening. when transferring the files to an external drive, all of the contents appear in order. the # of GIGs matched the amount of shooting, and i thought we were ok. however, final cut will not import the files. understand that loss of connectivity failed to "finish" files. i mounted them BACK on the firestore and ran repair-disk. no effect. BUT i then successfully played back through the hvx-200 with sync audio. i even successfully recorded said playback to a P2 card in the VCR mode! problem solved. i thought. except final cut still won't import the newly recorded P2 contents. no apparent reason. hate life. am planning to playback and then feed that out analogue to an HD deck and lay to tape. any better suggestions?

LOCKED P2 CARDS: shot a half-day to P2 cards, with my P.A. offloading media to an external drive on-location thru her laptop. everything looked normal, but the files were "locked". we have since "unlocked" the files, but final cut doesn't recognize them. these do not copy off to the firestore for playback.

meh??

thanks in advance for your genius solutions to my annoying P2 problems. happy to accept that it's all user error, but very anxious to recover my files.