IMovie HD vs iMovie 5?

I seem to have two versions of iMovie on my hard disk -- iMovie 4.0.1 and iMovie HD 6. Now when I try to open iMovie HD6 I get multiple messages that all say something like:
"Something is wrong with the plugin Camcorder (X)" OR
"Something is wrong with the plugin Edge Detection (X). and so on....
I get about 50 of these boxes popping up when trying to open the application. My 16 year old told me this has been an issue since we bought the iMac (I never use iMovie!) and all he does is just click OK until all the boxes stop popping up and then he uses iMovie HD without any problems.
I have several questions that I hope a nice person will answer for me:
1. when I transferred all my information from my Powerbook G4 to my new iMac did I do something wrong and did not install the right iMovie program?
2. why are all these boxes popping up?
3. How do I repair the problem?
I appreciate any help I can get... I don't like getting all those boxes popping up telling me all the plugins are wrong....
Many thanks.
Wendy
iMac 20 " Core 2 Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Wow! That was fast! Thanks so much for your help. It all makes sense now. Clearly I have a weak grasp of all my programs... which is why I bought Apple computers in the first place.. they really do just work (well, most of the time anyway.)
I appreciate your help.
Wendy

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