Imovie 06 won't play--images freeze up

I am using imovie 06; when I try to play anything (clip or movie I've edited), it is slow to start, and then only plays a second until the image (and sound) freezes while the arrow/cursor continues to move right. i have searched everywhere online; here's what i've done to try and fix thus far (nothing's worked):
-Deleted high-gig clips from project.
-Exported my movie as both a DV Stream and "high quality" video and re-imported as 1 movie, thereby eliminating all the edits
-Deleted extra audio .mov clips
-Saved as a new movie
-Connected all my external hard drives, in case project was still looking for something somewhere else.
-Trashed my imovie preferences from my library; read that these would be re-created when I emptied, restarted computer, and imovie--failed. now have no preferences.
-Moved project out of subfile to bigger file.
-Got rid of 20 gb of stuff from my main hard drive to clear space.
That's all the suggestions I could find online. Nothing's worked. This is a problem not only with this project, but others, as well, it seems. Nothing plays. It all played fine 2 weeks ago before I started this project. My project is on an external hard drive, connected to a laptop. I have transferred the project, and some of the clips, from one hard drive to another and back again. All hard drives are connected.
HELP, someone please. I've been working on this every spare hour for the past 10 days, and I'm beyond fed up. And, no, I won't get a new computer or upgrade to more recent imovie, so please don't suggest that. Thank-you!

Hi
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
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Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. *com.apple.iMovie.plist *
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
iMovie updated ?
QuickTime updated ?
Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
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