IMovie 09 spinning wheel, never completes startup

I shot a few videos (short, perhaps 15 seconds total) and imported them to aperture 3. When I started imovie, it scanned my aperture library as expected but never completes - after the progress bar vanishes it sits at this screen: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/268628/iMovieFailedStartup.png perpetually. I've waited 15 minutes so far and tried restarting imovie a few times with the same result.

I figured it out! I have several hundred RAW images in iPhoto and it seems that iMovie chokes on them. If your iMovie is slow, with lots of spinning wheel, try the following:
1. close iMovie
2. hold down option key and launch IPHOTO
3. create new iPhoto database. call it "empty"
4. close iPhoto.
5. launch iMovie.
6. Problem Solved
whenever you work with iMovie, use the empty iphoto database. you can switch between iphoto databases by holding down the option key whenever you launch iphoto.
Apple, you need to fix this!

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