Backing Up IMovie HD Project Fails to Complete

I have a project in my iMac. It is currently about 12Gb. I tried to drag and drop the project folder in my external (Mac formatted) FW hard drive. It stops copying with an error saying clip 3_1.dv is missing some information. I temporarily moved that file out of the project folder and then it encounters another clip with the same message. Some clips are OK. I have never emptied my trash. I keep an original folder with imported camcorder clips. I open that project folder and drag and drop clips from that source folder into my working project folder clips pane. Would that process have something to do with missing info.?
My next attempt was to open the project folder in iMovie HD and do a "File/Save As/" into the external drive. Two different unsuccessful outcomes: 1) error msg saying could not complete save because there is not enough space and other reasons I cannot remember. 2) Or the File/Save As just hangs with progress bar only at 5-10% completion. I then shutdown via the power button.
I have about 80GB available hard drive space, so I don't think space is an issue.
Any other way to make these backup copies?
Thank-you,
Joe
Message was edited by: JoeTallyho

Turns out my hard drive was full of bad blocks and sectors. Apparently, some of my clips were in bad blocks probably after they were imported into my project, so Finder encountered this and cancelled my attempt to copy and archive files. It was interesting that iMovie continued to play through the affected files.
I replaced the Hard Drive and all seems fine now.

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