I have come closer to figuring out this dilemma.
I took the project file to my laptop and it opens there but I have not tried to play it because I think the same thing will happen... the file will corrupt cakewalk in some way and it won't play it on my laptop then.
I noticed I have a lot of weird anomalies in this file.
1 Some of the tracks have both mono and stereo clips in the same takes. Because they were recorded from Matrix View.
2 Some of the tracks have different colored clips within the takes...
3 Some of my melodyne clips overlap the other clips on the same take when I remove melodyne like they have meta data (tempo) embedded in the wave/rex files that is not being interpreted right.
4 When I remove melodyne from some takes (I don't dare play the song) I bounce them to clips and they are replaced with silence.
Number four has me wondering if it might be a good idea to resample the wave files in my audio folder.
I saved the project into another folder and it recopied the audio files to it and that did not fix the problem either.
I am wondering if Cakewalk is relying on my Klite mega codec pack to decode some these files or if it, like VLC player, has its own codecs within.
I am wondering if some of the wav files could have some sort of copy protection or proprietary codec.
The next step for me is to re-sample the clips in my audio folder and see if that works.
I am not sure if i had cakewalk use their original format when they were imported or to convert them to the project's settings.
I think most of them I dragged and dropped from the media browser bins but some I may have dragged and dropped from my desktop into Cakewalk (which I think does not work anymore).
If Cakewalk can reinterpret the manually re-sampled audio files that might be the best solution.
Removing melodyne from wav files that I have changed the tuning on parts of samples adds another level of complexity to this endeavor.
Re-tuning parts samples in Melodyne to fit a song's key was hard enough the first time.
I removed all effects from all the bins and still the song would not open.
I am sure the problems is the files that when bounced got replaced by silence and they were not muted either.