Help please, my imovie is acting wierdly.....

I am suddenly unable to movie title lines, I cannot add new titles and other strange things.
It happened last night. I rebooted the computer, but it still isn't allowing me to do these functions.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thx!

Sorry, it's the '08 version, I'm on 10.4.11.

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