Added Clip; Lost All Projects

Over the last few weeks, I've built up a series of iMovie '08 projects and events. Today, I was editing a project and had just dragged a clip into the project. The clip appeared in the project window, but I knew something wasn't right when I could not get the clip to play. I exited out of iMovie and launched it again. When iMovie came up, all of my projects were gone (showing only the default "My First Project"), but the events were still there.
The console showed the "Error writing to disk" that has been mentioned in other posts plus a "dictionary" error.
2007-10-07 11:54:57.277 iMovie[354] Project '/Users/will/Movies/iMovie Projects.localized/Maui 2007.rcproject' - save: Error writing to disk!
2007-10-07 11:56:12.874 iMovie[354] * -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
iMovie didn't crash (as I've read in other posts), but something went terribly wrong to lose all of my projects. Is there any way get my projects back?
Message was edited by: Will Deatrick

After some more poking around, I found that a new "iMovie Projects" folder had been created and my old one (with my projects inside) was now named, "iMovie Projects 1". I deleted the new "iMovie Projects" folder and renamed the old folder to the standard name. When I launched iMovie, all of my projects as of this morning reappeared, but not the projects or edits I made today.
I may have caused some of the problem this morning when I selected "File > New Folder..." from within iMovie. I had expected this to create a folder in the Projects Library (as in iPhoto or iTunes), but nothing seemed to happen. Has anyone else been able to create a folder within the Projects Library.

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