Huge hidden temporary files from imovie 09

I've just purchased imovie09, made a project on my large external hard drive, imported an hour of video from my vid recorder and tried to render it to iDVD.... it crashed repeatedly and I then discovered that imovie09 had filled up my ROOT drive with hidden temporary files, despite the fact the project was on the external drive.
WHERE are these temporary files and WHY is imovie09 doing something as silly as ignoring my project location when rendering?
Someone please help.... this product is driving me bonkers with frustration!!

thanks for your reply but it doesn't answer my questions:
Fortunately I used lsof to track down that iMovie09 is completely ignoring the location of the project and is rendering the file (a multi-gigabyte file!) into /private/tmp....
.. which, quite frankly, is about the most idiotic use of a temporary directory I've ever seen.
Come on, Apple - get with it... we buy these large external drives and then your software ignores them!

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