Have the Clips, Lost the Timeline

I've read through the forums a bit, and have not found a specific answer to my problem. I'm sure it's out there, but I'm stressed so I'm throwing it out.
I run an old G4 Cube, updated to OSX 10.4. The 20 Gigabyte hard drive is pretty much full, so I have an 80 GB and a 500 GB external drive. I got a video camera a year ago, and finally got around to trying to make a movie from my clips in iMovie. I spent 10 hours on a 60 minute video over the past couple days.
I imported the clips no problem. I arranged them in the order I wanted, no problem. I added titles no problem. I was pretty proud of my work. I saved it and quit. Then when I come back to open it, I get a message saying "There are 125 stray clips in the project folder. Would you like to put them on the Clips Pane?" If I say no, the project is empty. If I say yes, all my clips, including the titles I created show up in the clips pane, but the timeline is blank. I assume I'd have to go back and re-order all the clips in the time line.
In the project folder is a quicktime movie that is my project up to the last save. It plays with all the clips and titles in the correct order. The problem is that I wanted to add a couple more clips and a couple more titles, and this quicktime movie is not editable.
The project folder is saved on an external HD, because the internal has only 4 GB free.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

If I understand you correctly, the project is on an external drive, right? If not, please say. And I assume there's sufficient free disk space on that drive to edit the project. At least 10 GB free. Preferably more.
If so, then you shouldn't have to move the project. It should be okay where it is.
iMovie 4 would sometimes "forget" all the clips in the project. Essentially, all the editing is discarded, leaving all the clips in the iMovie Trash. It sounds like that may have happened to your project. (This would sometimes happen when we emptied the iMovie trash.)
The project may be rescuable, however, without having to re-order the clips in the Timeline.
It's possible to import that small QuickTime movie you mentioned to a NEW iMovie project. The movie is a special kind of movie called a reference movie, which plays the clips in the Media folder of the project. When you import the movie to a new project, everything in the Timeline of Project A will arrive in Project B as a single clip. That's not ideal, but it may be good enough. It should let you finish the project.
There's one hurdle. iMovie 4 can import no more than 9 minutes of video at a time, and your movie is 60 minutes long. So it's necessary to split the QuickTime movie into 9-minute chunks that you can import. Our friends at Oakstreet Software offer a free Applescript script that will split the movie. QuickTime Pro is required to run the script, $30 from Apple.
http://www.oakstreetsoftware.com/qtscript.php3
60 minutes is about 13GB, so you will need at least 25GB free on whichever drive you create the new project.
Until everything is complete do NOT save the project or make any other changes. Saving it will replace the QuickTime movie with a new empty movie. It will be empty because there's nothing in the Timeline.
It should be okay to make a duplicate of the QT movie and store the duplicate somewhere outside the project. Work with that.
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