IMovie 11 gray clips - won't import to new project after crash

Hi all,
I was importing a load of video, recorded on a Zoom Q3HD (in .MOV format) to iMovie 11. At some point, iMovie crashed and forced me to restart the app. Since then, the clips I'm trying to import are showing up as gray in the clip window. Sometime, scanning over the clips will show thumbnails from a different clip however right now, it is showing me thumbnails of the movies I'm scanning over. I have trashed iMovie thumbnails and cache, done a permissions repair, restarted, checked for updates, even resaved the problem clips in QuickTime, thinking that the format of the clips could be an issue but it made no difference. Not sure what else I can do?? I am unable to drag these gray clips into a new project. Here is a screencast of my issue. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thx. Matthew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njlQMpas9aA

What you are seeing may not be a symptom of the clips going bad but instead a symptom of something failing in the Project itself. Especially after a crash with iMovie open, everything is to be suspect. Be very paranoid about all the elements in that project, any one of them could be the source of the problem you are witnessing.
Check out this Discussion Thread from September
I movie quits unexpectedly during editing and publishing
Click on the button near the top of the window where it says Project Library (it toggles between Library and edit Project).
Click just once on the name of the project, so that it highlights in blue.
Go to File Menu > Duplicate Project. There will now be a second project with the same name, but with a number added to the end of the name
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from Jasonryan1. It relates to a corrupted item existing in his project. And in his attempt to troubleshoot it, he suspected it was a Title he placed in the Project itself. Once he deleted the corrupted Title he was able to successfully export it. As to which item is causing instability, that's a tricky process to narrow down. And I would agree it seems unlikely all your projects could have some corrupted element in them. But it might work to concentrate on the simplest project which is showing the symptoms you describe. Duplicate that project and start deleting pieces of it and trying to add a Title to it and see if iMovie crashes. And that's not to say it's a title, it could just as easily be a picture, a transtion or a music clip that's preventing that project from previewing and importing clips properly.
Also consider the iMovie Preferences file.
Delete the iMovie Preferences file:
Go to the Desktop
Click on Go Menu then Choose Library
Go to Preferences > com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
Drag that file to the trash, restart iMovie and see how it reacts

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