How to restore imovie '09 projects from external HD and old HD disk image.

I moved the imovie events to an external HD (directory iMovie events) and did a fresh install of OSX (for other reasons). Now would like to restore my iMovie projects. I have an image of my hard drive from before the reinstall. Anybody got any hints? I had a number of hours of editing in on some video stuff from my wife's family. Could redo it I guess, but if I could salvage it, it would be great.

Did you move the Events to the external drive using iMovie? or using the FInder?
Let's assume you used the Finder. (If you used iMovie, the fix is simpler. Post back)
First, move the iMovie Projects from your image of your hard drive to the <your user name>/Movies/iMovie Projects folder.
Then move the iMovie Events from the external drive to the <your user name>/Movies/iMovie Events folder.
Then start up iMovie and all should be well.

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