Imovie5 + sparse disk + HFS+ drive = damaged footage?

Can anyone help with this?
I saved many small imovie projects with imovie5 inside a single sparse file which I could easily copy to a partitioned external drive. The partition was HFS+.
The first time I opened the sparse file off the HFS+ drive, I got the message: "the project was saved on an older version of imovie. Opening it will..."
None of that is true. What seems to have happened is the imovie projects, and the mov and wav files inside were corrupted either by the sparse file or the HFS+ drive, or both together. Maybe sparse files were incompatible with HFS+ drives...
The mov and wav files are unreadable. Is there anyway to rescue / convert them?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for that. I reckon that is the reason. So do you reckon the whole content of the imovie projects ia corrupted. They appear as files but can't be previewed or opened. Do you know of any software that could read or convert these movs? What a bummer, eh: Apple especially offering HFS+, and sparse files, but, without warning, they're incompatible. It's almost like the computer's hard drive being incompatible with some of the programs that come with the computer." Lol

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