Clips changing from 16:9 to 4:3

Dear Forum
I'd like to transfer individual clips between projects. I have done this previously by dragging a clip out onto the desktop, opening up the new project and then drag the clip back in. This has always worked well in the past.
More recently though, I've started shooting and creating projects in 16:9 widescreen. Now when I drag out a clip and then back into a project, the clip comes back in as 4:3.
When I send the clip out to the camera and re-import, it works fine and stays as 16:9. The problem only occurs when I try dragging clips out and back into projects.
Anyone have experience of this?
Cheers

With the version of iMovie I'm using (5), it's only possible to have one project at a time open.
That's why I drag clips onto the desktop.

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