IMovie 08 - created movie - moved to external - now can't open to edit

Help! Created my first iMovie - need to make an edit to it. Moved it to an external to free up space on my HD. Located the file on the external and tried to drag it back into iMovie but it won't drag. I dragged it successfully back to the Desktop and then tried to drag -won't drag. I then went to iMovie/file/import iMovie HD file and found the file but it was light grey / not highlighted and again, I couldn't import it.
One interesting thing and I don't know if it's relative, but the file is locked for some reason. I don't recall locking it. I click on the bottom right corner of the file box and unlock it - my computer asks for my password and I type it in and it unlocks. But it still won't drag over. AND, when I close the file info box, it re-locks automatically.
I've gotta get access to this movie to edit!
Help?
thanks everyone!!!

Boot = my Mac Harddrive, right?
It's not that it's giving me an error or anything like that. I brought the file back to my desktop. The file "kind" is an "iMovie" with 303 MB. It's there and looks healthy. Why is it not allowing itself to be dragged back in to iMovie? And more curiously, why is it locked? And when i unlock it - put in my password, etc... it locks back up when I close the info window.

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