Help Imovie 08 event window is locked up

I down loaded 3 hours of HD movies and made a 2 minute highlight film a few nights ago i went back the next night and it was gone out of IMovie08 i posted a question and no anser so i took my IMac back to the Apple store and they could'nt find anything wrong, so i spent another 5 hours making it again today I was just about done and wanted to make a few of the clips slow motion so I found the clips in IMovie 08 opened the event finder,duplicated the clip then I went into IMovie HD opened the finder dragged the event copy over and made my edits and put it back in the finder and then reopened IMovie08 and used the edited slow motion clips everything was going well and i did this one more time and when i re-opend IMovie08 puff everything was gone!!! I lost hours of work twice and now IMovie08 wont work at all...i shut down and restarted opened IM08 and there was nothing there, blank gray screen when i moved the mouse over it my events popped up but when i click on a different event in the event library it wont change the clips in the event window but if i hit the space bar an old import will play in the upper rt window (different then what's shown in the lower event window) I hope someone understands what i'm trying to say . oh and there is no sound when you glide the mouse over the events.

Not sure what you have done (if anything, since it's only a suspicion) to cause the problem, so I'm not sure I could suggest what would put it right.
To make a slo-mo. alt + drag the clip to the desktop, do whatever you need to do to make the slo-mo and import your creation into im08 using file/import movie.

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