IMovie 08 quits shortly after starting IMovie 08

New mac owner here.
Purchased a standard macbook 6 months ago. From the purchase date I successfully used the IMovie version that came with the mac. Last week I decided to upgrade to ILife08 and therefore IMovie 08. Since then IMovie 08 shuts down after just a few minutes of running. I ran repair permissions and also ran each of my projects to see if it was related to one specific project and came up with nothing. I have also installed any updates related to IMovie, ILife, or the Mac HD.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

The first thing I'd do would be delete the iDVD preference file.
To delete iDVD's preference file: First quit iDVD; then look in Home/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag the plist file to the trash, then reopen iDVD. iDVD will create a new plist file.

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