Final Cut won't import imovie projects with stills

Final Cut is importing iMOvie projects that just consist ov video clips, but some of my iMovie projecys have been complied form stills (jpeg and png files) that have been imprted into iMovie.
It seems to me that stills are treated differently to video in iMovie, the images are imported directly into a project, not the event folder, but in FCP images are imported (and viewable) into the event the same as video clips.
Is this the reason that FCP crashes when I try to import these projects I wonder?
(I can post a crashlog if it helps)

This is happening for me also. Will import simple iMovie projects, but crashes every single time with a more complex iMovie file; it may be the inclusion of stills. I am using the 30-day Trial version.

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Hi Luis, thanks
I guess I have to explain a little more.
I got a new computer.
Old computer was backed up via Time Machine.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61851
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