Caught out by iMovie '08 downgrade  -- what can I do?

Hi, a short while ago I bought a 24" iMac, largely because of the iLife suite, and in particular because my teenaged son is getting more interested in media production. iMovie is what he is using at high school for his work. Well, it has come to project time, and I now find that iMovie '08 has been gutted, and that all of the features he is using on the school Macs have been removed. It doesn't even have a proper timeline. At first I thought he was exagerating, but when I did some investigation it turns out he was right. Also, all of the 'downgrade' options seem to have been yanked by Apple. Apparently '09 doesn't fix the problems.
So what can I do? I feel like I have been duped, and wasted two grand -- this was the primary reason I bought a Mac. He is now having to take his files into school and use their machines, which defeats the object of having a home machine. I can't afford Final Cut. Is there ANY way to get iMovie '06 on my machine?

Apple removed their free download site for purchasers of iLife 8. The only way to get iMovie 6 is to buy iLife 6 if you can find it. Try ebay.
If you ever had it on another computer, you can connect the computers and copy it to your new iMac.
iMovie 9 does have more features than iM8, so before getting exasperated over it, look at Apple's tutorial and check out other tutorial/info sites to see if you can be comfortable using it. You and your son may find that it is ideal for his purposes.
Apple's: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
A good site: http://www.unlockingimovie.com/
And, Ken Stone has just done a beautiful tutorial, the most comprehensive I've seen: http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/imovie_09stone.html

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