I can't edit my Project in iMovie 11-Gray Screen

I completed importing all the clips into the PROJECT window from the EVENTS window that I needed. Everything was working well until I imported a song from iTunes. I tried ducking the song during a portion of a clip in the PROJECT window then all he(( broke loose. It would not duck so I decided to delete the song from the PROJECT window. It won't allow me to delete the song. Now I can't edit the project. I tried to rename the project and it allowed me in the PROJECT but has a gray viewing screen. I still have sound in the clips but nothing but gray in the viewing area. If I close the project and close iMovie11 and then reopen iMovie 11 it will not allow me to Edit the Project. If I change the name again it will allow me into edit but it will not allow me to edit and of course I still have the lovely gray viewing screen.
Coaches at eleven (11) Division 1 universities are wanting this Recruiting Highlight Video of my son playing soccer and they want it in the next week or so. I MUST get this thing finished. A scholarship maybe riding on this video or at least a second look at him in person.
Can ANYONE help? PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm using iMovie 11 9.0.4 (1634)
Keith

I had the same problem and did all of the suggestions such as deleted certain files (com.apple.imove....and com.apple.iapps....) from the preferences folder...didn't really help my situation so I decided to view "rejected only" clips and saw that a clip that was in my project was in the list. So I deleted the clip and everything is working fine. You will just have to import that clip again.
Hope that helps...

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