IMovies 09 (8.0.6): Unable to Export Movie: Error -43

OS: 10.7.2
Imovie 09: 8.0.06
When I go to export a movie using Share --> Export Using Quicktime
A popup comes up and says:
Can't export Movie becasue an erro occured. -43
What is error -43? The error is not very descriptive.
Thanks, Jim

I have my souce movies stored on an external 500gb drive, with 35gb free. The drive in the laptop has 30gb free.
I was able to get imovie to use the external hard drive to store the movies by creating a symlink from $HOME/Movies to /Volumes/Movies.
Jim

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