Cannot import iMovie files after system reinstall

Tiger 10.4, iMovie 5.01,
Things were oh so easy for a long time then ,wham, everything went haywire.
Was working on vacation video. trip of a lifetime with two families, you know.
Anyway finished movie,did theiDVD sequence then tried to burn. Had issues with audio encoding. Removed the .com.plist.apple thing and couldn't do anything in iDVD.
I saved all of my libraries and iMovie files to an external disk and reinstalled my OS (tiger 10.4) Now i can not open the movie I made just hours before.
Wha Happened?
HELP!

First of all: Update everything: OS 10.4.2, QT 7.0.1 and iMovie 5.0.2.
Was the external drive PC-formatted or Mac-formatted?

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