Imovie'09 crashes when full screen preview of project

Hello,
When I try to preview a project that I made in full screen, the application crashes. Is this a problem with the application or the OS?
Thanks for you suggestions.

@thomasfrommaitiand -- are you referring to the projects when you say left side of my screen?
I will share my findings.
I cleared my issue basing on inputs that I received from this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3343087?start=0&tstart=0
Basically, I had to duplicate my project so that I do not loose my original version and then started deleting each clip, audio overlays, transitions from the project one by one. I had photos interlaced in my project along with the video and some audio clip overlaying the video.
Luckily about 1 minute int the project, I identified that a Title slide that I had inserted into the project was causing the full screen to crash. Once I deleted that 1 slide, I was able to run my project in full screen without any issues. It is quite cumbersome and manual especially if you have multiple pieces in your project. However, you are desperate to have your project working like mine, this is the only best solution that I could garner. However, I also followed the instructions from the above mentioned thread posted by "elikness" and deleted the imovie.plist. That didnt really help but I followed those instructions too.

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This is the Elements Organizer 10 Preview :
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1997/elementspreview.png
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http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/5016/windowspreview.png
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