IMovie '08 + iDisk Problem

So I was attempting to move some of my video projects and files onto an external hard drive. I was successful in moving the events over, but moving the projects was not working. Furthermore, iMovie quit recognizing a lot of things and everything is in a mess.
Now what happened is one of my videos disappeared from my projects pane, so I recreated it to put it back. But, the original copy of that video had been uploaded to my .Mac Gallery already, so I had to go into my iDisk and delete it. I managed to do that, but after that, In my Events pane, my iDisk name appears as a source. It has a yellow warning type of sign, and I'm trying to figure out why it's there and how to remove it. So far, I've had no trouble uploading videos to my .Mac Gallery. Any tips?
Much appreciated.
-MacUser

Well, after I deleted all of the copied video files on my external and reorganized/deleted some files in iMovie, restarting my Mac seemed to fix the problem.
Odd... Ah well, never mind that.
-MacUser

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