Backing up events in iMovie 08 to DVD

Hello,
Just purchased a new iMac and am just learning iMovie. I was wondering if some of you iMovie experts might have some advice for me. Here's the situation:
Before leaving for vacation last weekend I imported a bunch of video off our camcorder into iMovie 08. We have one of those hard drive based camcorders which had about 20 hours or so of video stored on it that I had not done anything with, so I had to clear it out before leaving to make room for new stuff.
iMovie imported everything as events and all was well. All I did was import the video - I did not make any projects or anything like that.
After returning from vacation, I find that I am going to have to re-format my hard drive and re-install Leopard using the "Erase and Install" option (for reasons unrelated to iMovie).
So the big question is - How can I back up the movie files (events) that I imported before I left, to a DVD? I was able to find an option in iPhoto under "Share" and then "Burn", which allows you to burn a copy of your iPhoto Library to CD/DVD and then re-import those photos back to your library - but I was unable to find a similar option for iMovie 08.
If I can't find a way to back all these imported camcorder videos up, my wife will kill me.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
-RJ

Hi Karsten,
Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate the insight, and I 100% agree with your advice - I'll be purchasing an external drive in the next week or two to use iMovie with going forward.
Unfortunately though, I need to re-install OS X today, and I can't lose the iMovie events I imported before leaving for vacation. My only real option at the moment is to back them up to DVD's ( I know it will take many DVD's) or maybe to back them up to my .Mac iDisk - although I don't think I'd have enough iDisk storage for 20 hours of video.
My problem is still - How do I go about backing the videos (events) up? Like what files do I need to copy, etc.
Is there something in iMovie (like I described above in iPhoto) that will easily copy all the necessary files to a DVD or something like that?
Being a Swticher from PC, this Mac is turning out to be so awesome....but it's difficult not knowing where everything is.
-RJ

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