Can't drag every project into new volume in Project Library (iMovie '09)

I am backing up my iMovie '09 projects (and their events) to an external hard drive. I am doing this from within iMovie, by dragging each project from the list that appears in the Project Library window onto the appropriate external drive that appears also in that window and selecting "Copy Project and Events." I have no trouble doing this... except...
The list of projects is quite long. There are times when the external drive is not visible in the window at the same time as the project I am trying to move. When I drag the project, it does not move "up" (or "down") the list, which remains (for lack of a better word) static; I can never drag it to the HDD volume. I hope this makes sense.
"Duplicate Project" only duplicates it on the current HD. There is no "Move to..." except "Move to trash." I can find no way to "select all" projects and drag the entire lot of them all at once into the desired volume.
What am I doing wrong or overlooking?
(I'm using a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8.)

I am in the habit of creating folders for my projects by year. If I have a single group of movies all on the same subject, I will create another folder for them under the year folder. For example, I have a folder for 20 movies I made during a cruise to Greece and Turkey under the 2008 folder.
Once everything is in Folders, it is simple to open one folder, close the rest, and you can see both the file and the target drive on the same screen. You may want to create a similar folder on the new drive, because I don't think you can copy an entire folder all at once.
Another trick to try at your own risk (i.e. test it first). You can move the first project over to the new drive from within iMovie. This will set up a proper iMovie Projects.localized folder on the external drive. Then try dragging some more projects to the external drive using the FInder. Paths to Events are hard coded within projects, so you cannot move events this way, but it should work for projects. (But test it first and convince yourself).
I have done it this way when a drive was failing and I had to act quickly.

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