Can't see itunes library or iphoto library in imovie

When creating a project in imovie, you can normally add music from you itunes library. When I click on the Music icon, my itunes linrary of song are not availble to add. There is a message that I need to open itunes to see the songs. I have itunes open and it does not help.
I have the same issue with iphoto, the images are not availble to selected when I click the camera icon to add photos to imovie. Very strange.
So far, I have repaired disk permissions, reinstalled imovie, created a new iphot library, new itunes library, restarted each application several times, restarted the computer.

I needed to create a new user account on the computer. Went to system preferences, users and group, created a new users with admin rights. I then opened itunes and signed in, opened iPhoto and recopied my images, opened imovie and my music and images were available again.

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