Accidentally "moved project to trash".... now it won't reinstate?

After about 5 hours of working on it, I had finished making a slideshow in iMovie '09... I was going to go show somebody but wanted to quickly delete other projects that I had finished. I clicked on "Move to Trash" for those 2, but apparently I clicked one too many times and accidentally deleted my slideshow project.
Not really a big deal, right, since all you have to do is move the file out of the trash to make it work again? WRONG. It's not opening. I went to the trash and pulled out the "Temporary Item" folder iMovie automatically puts it in; now, when I click on the icon, iMovie opens to a new event ("My First Project") and won't acknowledge my slideshow. I tried doing the same thing for the other projects I meant to delete, and the same thing occurs. The file is still identified as an iMovie Project.... but... yeah. It's not working. Has anyone else had this problem and/or could help me fix it?????

I read another post about moving the file into the Movies>iMovie>iMovie Projects folder. Did that and it worked.

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