Opening old iMovie projects in new iMovie HD

I have a few old iMovie projects from around 2001/2002 on an external hard disk. If I try to open them, they won't open in iMovie. Instead it would give a "Parse Error". The folder looks something like this:
Is there a way I can open these projects? I can open the single clips by adding .dv as an extension, but then I'd have to rearrange/remix everything again which I don't want to do.
Thanks and best regards,
C.

It seems as your external disk is not Mac-formatted (Mac OS Extended), but PC-formatted (FAT32).
First copy your files over to a disk that is Mac-formatted (Mac OS Extended).
Then you apply my file fixers a bit down on this page:
http://www.berga.nu/%7Eusrlt/imovie/index.html

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