File size... event files vs. project files... finalizing... help!

Hi,
I'm trying to create some room on my hard drive, and I see that I have 80GB of files sitting in my events folder of iMovie. If I finalize my projects, will they take up less room than that original footage? Can I finalize everything and then trash all of the event footage? (I won't need to go back and reuse the originals... it's mostly individual band songs that each are their own project.) But... are those finalized projects re-editable if I want to add something later?
Thanks for your help - I just want to make sure I'm optimizing my hard drive space. It's confusing to me where these different files are kept!
I'm in Lion running iMovie 11.

+Is there a particular reason why it makes sense for the Browser to use one way, and the Finder to use the other?+
Most likely it is down to which particular call is used by the programer to ascertain file size and therefore the way that file size data is returned to the app. Don't forget that the FCP's basic code is pretty darn old now and predates current best practices for file size reporting.
+And why, staying with the above example, does the Media Manager come up with its own unique measurement altogether, different from BOTH of the others (or is that just part of its charm)?+
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+Also -- am I correct in noticing that under Snow Leopard, Disk Utility has switched from one measurement scheme to the other? (DU suddenly seems to be seeing my 500GB drives as having a single-volume partition of -- gasp -- 500GB! Who would've thought?)+
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