Imovie 11 move vs. copy

I have clips that I use in several movies...
Wanting to move off some of the data burden off of my computer... I had ctrl-moved some of my projects off onto another drive.  So I'm having problems w/ crashes upon selecting some of my projects (not all).  So in this 'move' feature... I'm supposing I've shot myself in the foot, having not considered multiple uses, hence the reason for the crashes & inability to even get into those projects any longer. 
I did this like.... 5 months ago & it never connected until now & realllllly wanting into an older project.
Would you all concur?  Any fix suggestions?  If I time machine... I'll lose my newer stuff right? or will it keep multiple placements?  I had this kind of footage together on the computer in a few folders that no longer exist & I don't know I could guess what they were....  (perhaps i could view them on time machine but not implement them from it) but if I could, would the ans. be to dupe them from the external drive and place them back on the computer with the right folder chain?
anyways... advice apprec.

maybe i'm not as clear as I should be.... I selected "move project AND events"... instead of just "move project"...
so in using event footage in multiple projects... baaaaaaaddddd.
can't dupe an event folder IN imovie and move it back (to help out many projects looking for what's missing)... so would duping it (event folder) and putting it back OUTSIDE of imovie (in it's old place) be the route to go? 
I know things get messed up if you do thing outside of imovie... but if i'm just putting something back it's already looking for... I dunno.??
OR... LOL... if I want to get into them move the event folder to the old drive... access what I need and then move it back so I can access the newer stuff?
I'm trying to make the most of my mess here...

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