IMovie 5.0.2 freezes my computer

I'm working on a small iMovie project, 28 minutes of DV-PAL footage and I'm experiencing some serious troubles. I have to say that I've never used iMovie in the past. When I first created my project and did some first raw adjustments (cropping, trimming,...) everything worked fine, but now that I've made some audio tweaks, transitions and added 3 soundtrack,s things don't work anymore. When I try to play/preview the project, audio starts stuttering, frames are very slow and then the beach ball appears freezing the computer. I'm not even able to access other applications, the mouse becomes impossible to use and only choice is a forced shutdown. I've tried to repair disk permissions, remove iMovie preference and cache files but to no avail. What can I do???? Someone has experienced this??? The project is almost complete but I can't really finish it. Specs of my setup are below, HD has more than 25 GB of free space.
Thanks.

Hi,
thanks for trying to help. Among your suggestions I already tried most of them. Here are my answers to your comments.
"25Gb free space - on internal (start-up) hard disc ?"
It's 19 GB on internal HD and 25 Gb on an external FW drive. I've tried the project on both but it didn't make much difference.
"If so I would start a new account and try from here - if it runns smothly that the problem is
most probably in the iMovie pref files that has to be deleted so that iMovie can make new fresh ones."
I have already removed iMovie cache and preference files.
"• Hard disc is untidy:
Repair Permissions (Apple Disc Util tool)
Repair Hard disc (Apple Disc Util tool), You'll need to start from DVD or external hard disc"
Of course it was the first thing I did. I also checked both HD with Genius Drive.
"• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK"
No, no third party-plug ins.
"• Several audio clips eg 50 to hundreds or more"
Nearly 45 video clips. I've splitted audio from nearly 30 clips and added two soundtracks. To be honest I think troubles began as soon as I started working on the audio. Full project size is 9.8 GB. The media folder contains 158 items. Have I exaggerated? I have never used iMovie in the past so I'm not sure about its limits. If so what can I do to fix the project without restarting from scratch?
"• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.10 AND QuickTime 7.2 - is OK"
OS X 10.4.10, iMovie 5.0.2, QT 7.1.5
Thanks again.
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