IDVD crashed folder with movie and project gone/invisible

I just created a movie with iMovie 6 and had it saved on an external Firewire drive, then I exported to iDVD 8, again saving the project to the externa drive and same folder, then as I was adding media to the menus iDVD suddenly quit. I navigated to the external drive in the finder, and the folder is gone!
When trying to open/save a project from iMovie or iDVD, the folder name shows up with a blank rectangle icon, but there's no directory.
Any ideas on how I can restore the folder?

Disk Utility and Repair Disk restored the folder and all it's content - from now on, I'll put my iDVD projects in a separate folder!

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