Can't get iMovie to open

I'm just back from the Genius Bar. My appt was to get help on not being able to get iMovie to open.
The genius said to download all the current software updates and that would solve the problem. He said that post-updates I would have OSX10.5.4. But I just ran the available updates; there were no updates to iMovie, and post-update I am still running 10.5.2. And, I still can't get iMovie to open.
Any help would be appreciated.
Greg

I hadn't been able to get it to open either after trying many things like trashing prefs, new DivX etc, what I found in my logs:
3/9/08 3:32:02 PM iMovie HD[2587] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/-DivX 5.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX 5: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/-DivX 5.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX 5, 262): Library not loaded: /Library/Application Support/DivXNetworks/liblame3.92.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/-DivX 5.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX 5
Reason: image not found
Went to my root Library/QuickTime/ folder and deleted the -DivX 5.component file which appears to be a PPC file hold out that transferred from my old iMac, iMovie now works! Suggest you look for that file.

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