Exporting partly completed imovie to DV tape to re-import later

Hi. Oh dear, feel a bit amateur asking this, but I guess I am!
I've imported some DV footage and have a partially completed edited movie for a friend. They need to give me some more footage before I can finish it and then send to iDVD to burn. There will be a delay though and I want to crack on with other movies I need to work on in the meantime. I only have 60gb to work with so I want to shift the partly done movie off my hard drive so it clears space for me to work on the next project, but of course I will need to re-import it when I get the extra footage at some point to carry on.
I'm not sure how best to go about this. I've read some disucssions but they don't seem to help me, or at least my low knowledge level - I will pretty much need an idiot's guide version!
I think I can export the part finished movie to DV tape, but is it as simple as then re-importing that content back into a new movie project? (and i've heard of others reporting tape judder etc) and what do i need to delete or keep in terms of project files etc to get this to work?
Apologies in advance if this is all rather lame - but very grateful for any help. The simpler the better!

To clarify what is a complicated situation regarding exporting/re-importing of clips...
When we export an iMovie project to tape, then later re-import the tape back into a new project, some clips return as discrete clips and some do not. What happens depends on the source of the clip and their neighbors on the Timeline.
Clips that had a time code when originally imported — clips shot by most video cameras — retain their "clip-ness" throughout the export/re-import process. The time code is exported with the clip back to the camera, which allows iMovie to recognize them as discrete clips when re-imported. (True most of the time, but not always. I've read that may not be true with some PAL video, if I recall. Sorry, no experience.)
Clips created by iMovie — such as title clips, special effect clips and transition clips — have no time code attached for they weren't shot in a video camera. So they have no flag that allows iMovie to recognize them as discrete clips when re-imported. These types of clips return as discrete clips ONLY if their neighbors have a time code. (Then iMovie can recognize them as different from their neighbors.)
But if two or more clips with NO time code stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the Timeline, they will return as a single clip. That's because there's nothing that distinguishes one from the next.
So the result of your re-import, Peter, depends on what clips you have now and their neighbors in the Timeline. The only way to know for sure is to try it.
Note too that if you have a few clips you want to export in their entirety you can Option-drag them to the end of the Timeline — Option-dragging duplicates them— then select each and tell iMovie to Revert to Original. Then export. When they return, you'll be able to edit these clips just like when you first imported them.
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