Can't Delete Clips in iMovie

I was running an iDVD project and trying to edit an iMovie slideshow when iDVD stopped responding and I force quit from it. I then tried to Delete a clip from the iMovie project I was working on and it won't do it. Neither will trying edit-->clear. I have restarted twice and deleted iMovie preferences and it still won't work.
What have I done and how can I fix this?

I couldn't figure out how to fix this - something was corrupted, so I just started over and made an identical iMovie project to import into iDVD and trashed the old one.
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.. When I drag a video (.mov) clip to the boxes, where it says "Drag media here to create a new project," iMovie will not accept it. ..
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