Cannot get iMovie to open because it's looking for an old ext drive. help

I just upgraded to 10.6.2 and Life 09. When I open iMovie it tries to open an old external drive /server path and just goes unresponsive. I cannot get rid of this even when I dump iLife .plist to force a reset. Can anyone tell me how I can actually start using this application?
Thanks

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Pacifist is available here:
http://www.charlessoft.com
To extract and install it, do this:
Launch Pacifist. Insert your Mac OS X 10.4 Install or Upgrade DVD in your optical drive and wait for it to mount. Press the now-activated Open Mac OS X Install Packages button in Pacifist. Wait for the window to appear - it will take some time to load all of the resources - then double click on the Contents of Essentials.pkg file to open it, double-click on the Applications folder, select iSync.app then press the Install button.
That will install a copy of iSync 2 into your Applications folder. Then run the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo update for PowerPC, which will update it to release 2.3.
That specific updater is available at this link:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1048comboupdateppc.html
*Note that the original DVD required to perform the extraction and this updater are only intended for use with a PowerPC platform. Your intel-based MacBook requires a different updater should you wish for some reason to update it. The install DVD supplied with the MacBook cannot be used to extract iSync 2 for use on your PowerPC machine, as that disk contains an intel-only version of the application.

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