My iMovie no longer will load. Message says, "You can't open the application "iMovie" because it is not supported on this architecture."

I have been using iMovie successfully and have several movies saved, but now iMovie will not load. I have OS 10.5.8 and I don't know what to do. Are there any suggestions? I'm not even familiar with the term "architecture" or why it would be different than it was.

iLife '06 is the newest version that includes iMovie that a G4 will run.  Any newer version of iMovie as included with iLife, will not run on a G4.

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