Drag and drop archiving in iMovie '11

I'm having trouble archiving my Movies to my external HD in iMovie '11. In all the tutorials and guides I have read, it seems to simply be a case of dragging the folder you wish to move to the drive you wish to move it to within iMovie itself. However, for some reason I cannot drag any of the folders anywhere, all attempts to drag simply highlight and open the folders beneath the one I'm trying to move.
I've looked through all the settings within iMovie and within the mouse settings, but I can't find anything that might be causing the issue.
Any advice or assitance offered would be appectiated!

Could you post a screenshot of what folders you're talking about? You have to move events. It should look something like this:

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