Application quit in FCE and iMovie

During capture sessions, I am experiencing application quits in both FCE 2.0.3 and iMovie HD. Since both programs did this. I thought this might be a hard drive issue. Maybe? Since both programs were effected I did not see how crashing preferences could help.
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eMac 10.3.8 RAM 1GB
My hard drive has 90 of 150GB available. The first external HD had 58 or 200GB available, so I changed external drives to one that has over 250 GB of 500GB available, but the quits continue.
Here is my workflow.
I like to do my first rough edit in iMovie for the destructive editing ability (I can not store a whole season of my son's sport on any drive so I make a first pass to reduce size.) Then I import into FCE in April to make a team video.
I have not upgraded to 10.3.9 because I heard of Safari issues. I had no need to buy 10.4, but would consider it more stability ( I'm not interested in Widgets.)
To any kind souls, please comment on any of the above, however the main issue is stopping these quits. (At least in iMovie it saves files created since the last save in a trash bin, but they are out of sequence. In FCE, they are lost.)
Thanks
Bill

Bill, welcome. This forum is for neither of those applications. But let me ask you this: are your externals firewire drives or USB's?
I suspect that a whole lot of quits in both apps mean you have corrupted preferences. Have you trashed prefs and repaired permissions?

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