Gray Source Video Displayed

In imovie 11, with Snow Leopard on the computer, the source videos (which are on a external hard drive) show up as solid gray in the imovie source video panel. If I click on a gray area I can get the video to play, but I dont know where I am in the video until then. Any suggestions?

Thank you for you're relpy and help Hunt. I appreciate and understand you're hint.
Though it is still weird for me that the 'bad' way PrPro renderes vector art (images and type) differs when different background footage is used.
The render quality of type and vector art is completely different with different background footage. This means my customer will get ugly type and logo's on webmovies with footage from camera X, and smooth type and vector art with footage from camera Y. Both with the same final dimensions after rendering thru the same set of settings.

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Message was edited by: lapa

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Please take a look to the settings called Choose what closing lid does. This can be found in the control panel -> power options
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1. When I try to trash "rejected clips", a dialogue box says I can't, and that I don't have enough disk >space! I did empty the trash, as the instructions said. I am using an external hard drive to hold the >source video.
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