IMovie 4 files pixelating in iMovie HD 603

It seems this import issue has been discussed a couple of times, still mine is different, so here we go.
Upon importing all old movies from iMovie4 (now rendering them to DVD as my previous (now dead) OS9 system couldn't run iDVD) to iMovie HD 603 and then to iDVD, there's one project that has been copied to the new HD, but comes up as Text files. Opening the original Project takes iMovie days. When then using the File converters from Lennart Thelander, the files are correctly recognized as DV, but are completely pixelated, nothing remains, both in Quicktime and iMovie.
Other projects (also from OS9-iMovie 4) imported fine, some required the help from the File Converters, but in the end they were all fine in iMovie6. Not this one project.
Any suggestions to what I can try next? Maybe find iMovie4 again to re-import it? Or a good iM6 trick? Any work-around?
Y

Hi Yves
Don't know if this is relevant but if one has photos in an iMovie project
then "Share/Export to iDVD" then OK to rendering. Much is lost.
(It even destroys the movie project = has to be re-done)
I don't use that export function to iDVD AT ALL.
I close iMovie
Open iDVD
Drop the movie icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
- Now iDVD will do the rendering instead and so much better -
Yours Bengt W

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