IMovie 08 Broken in Leopard, but old version works

2.0 Core Duo Macbook Pro. Upgraded to Leopard, then upgraded iLife. iLife mostly works.
I movie is broken. I can start iMovie 08, but the things like NEW PROJECT, NEW FOLDER, are grey and unselectable. Other menu items are not grey however. I can't open old projects with it. If i drag an old project onto the imovie desktop icon, it just ignores it.
iMovieHD works fine.

I'm having the same issues with iMovie I imported 4 hrs of video over Christmas and the new year and edited it into 3.5hrs and then broke the edited version up into manageable smaller sizes for export to several DVD'S using iDVD but when I l ran imovie to do this,the next time i had time available to do this stage, I found the same issues as you ... I hope all this work has not been for nothing . . .
to check the problem was not with the old files I created a very small new project using the built in camera of only a few second and it has the same issues. . .
Maybe it's me but i can't find any references to this in Apples online support . . .
I the past i have used a commercial video editing and burning program on another machine but both need upgrading badly so i opted for a new Mac and the built in software . . . thinking this would be a better long term investment
At least I now know I'm not the only one with this problem . . . I just wish Apple would fix this issue . . . SOON
If I wanted unstable beta ware software i would have gone windoze . . .

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