Can I "Un-Trash" an iMovie Project?

I had an iMovie HD project (around 47 GB) that I inadvertently dragged to the Trash. Before I realized what I had done, I emptied the Trash. Gone. However, I realized my mistake immediately and shut down my PowerBook G4.
I have booted up the PowerBook as a firewire target drive from an OS 9 Mac to see if it could see the invisible file(s). No luck.
I used the FileSalvage demo which pulled up a bunch of indvidual dv clips that are definitely from my project. But, at least in demo mode, the clips get all garbled after a few seconds in the preview window.
Another $90 utility, File Rescue, was even more worthless.
Of course, I don't want just .dv clips from my project. I want my project back. Has anyone discovered a way to do this?

I had a similar problem when imovie trashed my main folder after i trashed a sub folder. My second mistake was emptying the trash before double-checking. My third mistake was using my Mac for a week before I tried a data rescue program.
I had very good results with prosoft engineerings data rescue. By the time i got around to using the program many of my files had been rewritten.
Don't wait...you can do a free hard drive search to see what files are available for rescue.

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