How do I move my iMovie libarary to a different mac?

Hi,
I have done some video editing on my work computer (Macbook pro  ~Mid 2011), but I want to move everything that I've done to my home computer (iMac ~Mid 2007). 
If possible, I want to migrate everything as if I had done all the video editing on my home computer b/c I want a single place where all my imovie work resides.  All of the posts I've seen relate to how you can move the back-end files to an external drive (i.e. move the files to free up storage space but still access them from the same instance of iMovie), but what I'm looking for is to be able to open them with an entirely new instance of imovie (I don't care if I can no longer edit them from my work computer. 
Copied my entire iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders to my home machine, but imovie on that machine doesn't seem to be able to find the files.
I'm running Mavericks on both....after typing all this I just realized my work machine has iMovie '11 and my home computer (the one I'm trying to move to) has iMovie '09.  Does this have something to do with iMovie '09 not being able to read the files from iMovie '11? 
If I had iMovie '11 or later on my home computer would I be able to do this the way I'm trying to do it?

Discussions of RE-installing
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1408331?tstart=0
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1398961?tstart=0
-and http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/install-apps.html

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