Editing imovie Project on a Different Computer

I have been working on a video project in imovie 09 for my dad. I am doing the project on a macbook pro but unfortunately my sister is taking it to college. I want to move the imovie project to our mac desktop, and still be able to edit it because I am not finished with the project yet. I have tried using quicktime with the file extension DV but cannot add transitions or edit anything? Is there a solution?

Check iMovie/ABOUT and see which version you have. If you have version 8.0.6, use John Cogdell's advice above.
If you have version 7.1.4, you must use a slightly different procedure.
0) You need an external hard disk that is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled)
1) Open iMovie. Click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. You should see your hard drive in the Events Library List,
2) Drag the small icon for your Event to the small icon for the external drive, and let it copy.
4) Open the Finder and go to the <user>/Movies/iMovie Projects folder. Drag your project into the external hard drive.
5) Now, plug in the external drive to the mac desktop.
6) Open the Finder, and drag the Project File to the <user>/Movies/iMovie Projects folder.
7) Now open iMovie. Click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. You should see your Event file on the external disk. Drag it to the Internal disk in iMovie.

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I edited a short film for an Apple sponsored "iMovie Fest" at my university. They provided a MacBook Pro for me to work on, as I had to do the project in iMovie '08. After I finished the project and submitted it (as a .m4v file), I moved everything to my external hard drive -- iMovie Project files and iMovie Event files -- all at once and did not edit or add anything after that. The MacBook Pro was returned to Apple.
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*No audio on DVD disc.*
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