Why can't my existing iMovie project open in iMovie?

I am working on a Macbook OS X (10.6.1) in iMovie 9. I have worked on a project for hours and I read that iMovie auto saves your project when you quit iMovie, so I quit iMovie thinking that there would be no problem opening this project later on.
When I went to open the project, iMovie comes up blank with no contents, no videos etc. I see the saved project in my iMovie folders - but I've tried a dozen different things to try and get my project to open. I've tried importing my project in iMovie, I've tried just clicking on the project to open, I've tried googling information on security/permission terms. I've unlocked the permissions option to "write and read" in the "Get Info". Nothing seems to work.
Can someone please help me out on this one?

To jezz, Doug and Brian,
If you have not already tried this, trash iMovie's preference file. It's in your user (Home) folder Library>Preferences and is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". Close iMovie before trashing the file. When next opened iMovie will create a new file with the default settings. You can change the settings if desired - in iMovie go to the menu item iMovie>Preferences and make any changes under each of the 4 tabs.
The preference file can become corrupted at times - the main culprit being iMovie quitting unexpectedly or crashing, causing iMovie to behave abnormally. When problems arise with iMovie, the first troubleshooting tip is to trash the preference file. This doesn't always fix the problem, but is worth trying.
John

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