How can I save different versions in iMovie 11 (plus angry rant)

Sigh. 
My fiancee is sitting in front of the computer crying because iMove just messed up her project.  The project that was basically done.  The project she has to hand in tomorrow morning (it is midnight right now). 
Who knows what happened.  Things apparently just jumped around and no amount of undoing is getting her back to where she wants to be (apparently she used undo, then tried to fix things, then tried to undo again).
Which leads me to:
*** was Apple thinking when they removed the ability to save a file?  Seriously!  Both of us are experienced computer users and both of us are in the (very vital) habit of saving multiple versions of a file.  We don't save a version every 10 seconds, and we don't save a version for every insignificant change.  But we do save versions whenever we feel we have hit a milestone.  And we would have done exactly that had there been some obvious way to do it in iMovie.
OSX Lion (the first version of OSX that desperately makes me want to downgrade) is supposed to autosave so that you don't have to.  But iMove 11 apparently cannot do even this simple thing. As far as I can tell you work on your project and it is the *only* version of this project you can ever work on.  If you make a change, you can either:
live with it
or
linearly undo as long as you have not quit the program.  Heaven forbid that it crashes or (like it just did right now) stops playing back audio and you have to quit and restart.
There must be a way of saving different versions of your project so that you aren't messing with your one and only precious copy every time you make an edit.  Please tell me there is.  Or how do I get to the autosaved versions?  It is probably too late for her now (she has to redo most of the project to get the audio to line up again) but for future reference we could use some help.
Sigh.  Now I have to go help her.  I feel so bad for her and I pretty much want to chuck the freaking computer through Apple's living room window right now.

Sorry for your frustration.
Here are two tips that may help in the future.
To save a version, use FILE/DUPLICATE PROJECT http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3a61c0ec
You might also consider using Time Machine backups.

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