Can't Create Event

I'm a system administrator at a school. Currently I'm in the process of testing iMovie 08, as we've purchased the 3 year maintenance plan.
When trying to import from a DV deck I'm given the error
Can't Create Event
The import was canceled. You may not have permission to write to /Volumes/Storage/iMovie Events.localized.
Indeed, I can't write to the root of /Volumes/Storage, the student test account I'm using doesn't have access. I do however have a "student work" folder that they can write to. Is there any way I can get iMovie to create iMovie Events.localized in this folder rather than on the root of the drive? If not and there isn't a workaround, I guess we'll be sticking to iMovie 6.
Furthermore, the file being created on the root level implies that it is not multi-user aware. Is this right? Can users see each other's libraries? If the answer to either of those is 'yes' than it's not suitable for this environment and we'll be using the older version.
If someone is aware of a "Deploying iMovie 08 in a Managed Setting" document or similar, I'd appreciate the tip!
thanks,

Thanks for the quick reply, Lori. Yes the account does have a Movies folder, however there is no iMovie Events folder in there. Just iMovie Projects.
As an update, I manually created the folder /Volumes/Storage/iMovie Events.localized but it still would not work until I gave everybody full access to it. Then it was fine, so at least the error message is accurate. Obviously I can't leave it open wide like that once school starts.
EDIT: Just to be clear about my setup -- and WHY it's set up how it is -- the Movies folder is in the default location relative to the user home folder. The user home is on an XServe. Hence why I'm capturing video to a secondary internal partition (/Volumes/Storage).
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