IMovie 11 opens fine, but is invisible...

Hello fellow Apple people,
I have a really strange and irritating problem with iMovie 11.  This might require some screenshots to explain, but basically when I start the app the dock icon bounces away and then becomes the still serene dock icon with glowing blue dot that indicates the app is running...
Now here comes the strange part, iMovie itself appears to be completely invisible.  I'm not a professional with OS X, but I'm by no means a beginner, I can tell it hasn't crashed because the menu bar changes to the iMove menu bar and I can still interact with that.  I can even pull up the about iMovie window...
Activity monitor also confirms that it doesn't seem to have descended into "Not Responding" territory...
But the main app window is gone, completely invisible somewhere.  And nothing in the menu bar for iMovie can bring it back.  It remains that way until I CMD+Q out of it.  I've tried trashing the preferences, tried trashing all .plists I can find relating to iMovie, tried turning off spaces, tried reinstalling iLife, reinstalling OS X, tried updating...  No matter what I do, I can't seem to get rid of this problem.  I should mention that only iMovie is affected, all other iLife apps are working fine and my system itself doesn't seem to have any other problems that would make me suspect something is awry. 
Anyone with any suggestions?

I'm having the same trouble. Here's what appears in system.log upon launching iMovie. I'm on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 and iMovie 9.0.4.
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: -[ILAppDefPlugin beginBatch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x8335040
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: -[ILFolderPlugin beginBatch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x8331de0
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: -[ILAperture31Plugin beginBatch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x8337ba0
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: -[ILiPhoto9Plugin didCreateLoadDataLock]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x85aa610
Aug 21 22:58:15: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: -[ILiTunesPlugin beginBatch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x85ae5e0
Aug 21 22:58:15 c-69-181-49-254 iMovie[2458]: (
                    0   CoreFoundation                      0x989dae77 __raiseError + 231
                    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x997d7149 objc_exception_throw + 155
                    2   CoreFoundation                      0x989de480 -[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 256
                    3   CoreFoundation                      0x9892d8a9 ___forwarding___ + 457
                    4   CoreFoundation                      0x9892d672 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
                    5   iLMBiPhoto9Plugin                   0x0878417a iLMBiPhoto9Plugin + 12666
                    6   iLifeMediaBrowser                   0x96e1ef9e -[ILMediaObjectsViewController displayMediaSourcesForBrowserType:] + 553
                    7   iLifeMediaBrowser                   0x96e12f9b -[ILMediaObjectsViewController observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 1217
                    8   Foundation                          0x9b3948b4 NSKeyValueNotifyObserver + 387
                    9   Foundation                          0x9b3b73b9 NSKeyValueDidChange + 279
                    10  Foundation                          0x9b35e899 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] + 131
                    11  iLifeMediaBrowser                   0x96df6e4e -[ILMediaBrowserView viewDidMoveToSuperview] + 119
                    12  AppKit                              0x9517bbe2 -[NSView _setSuperview:] + 1664
                    13  AppKit                              0x9517b0fd -[NSView addSubview:] + 374
                    14  AppKit                              0x9517aec7 -[NSView replaceSubview:with:] + 186
                    15  AppKit                              0x9517922c -[NSCustomView nibInstantiateWithObjectInstantiator:] + 2591
                    16  AppKit                              0x9507733d -[NSIBObjectData instantiateObject:] + 271
                    17  AppKit                              0x9507650d -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 349
                    18  AppKit                              0x9506c679 loadNib + 380
                    19  AppKit                              0x9506bcbe +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 841
                    20  AppKit                              0x9506b96a +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 154
                    21  AppKit                              0x9506b89e +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 418
                    22  iMovie                              0x000395c1 iMovie + 230849
                    23  iMovie                              0x000484e7 iMovie + 292071
                    24  Foundation                          0x9b352ebe __NSFireDelayedPerform + 615
                    25  CoreFoundation                      0x988f3256 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22
                    26  CoreFoundation                      0x988f2be7 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 743
                    27  CoreFoundation                      0x988d1ce0 __CFRunLoopRun + 1888
                    28  CoreFoundation                      0x988d11ec CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332
                    29  CoreFoundation                      0x988d1098 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120
                    30  HIToolbox                           0x942c9487 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318
                    31  HIToolbox                           0x942d0cee ReceiveNextEventCommon + 168
                    32  HIToolbox                           0x942d0c32 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
                    33  AppKit                              0x950638ec _DPSNextEvent + 678
                    34  AppKit                              0x95063159 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113
                    35  iMovie                              0x00044e47 iMovie + 278087
                    36  AppKit                              0x9505f4cb -[NSApplication run] + 904
                    37  AppKit                              0x952f2b54 NSApplicationMain + 1054
                    38  iMovie                              0x000031b3 iMovie + 8627
                    39  iMovie                              0x00002a6e iMovie + 6766

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