IMovie 7.0 won't open in Mac OS X.5.8

Am I being completely stupid and misunderstanding the hardware requirements for this program? I am running iLife '08 (iMovie v7.0) on a PowerPC G5 with a 2.3ghz dual core processor. When I try to launch iMovie, it tells me that I cannot use this version of the application with this version of Mac OS X. Can anyone help me or suggest a fix to this incompatibility issue?
many thanks
James

Hi
Can be so many things - Things to try first are
• Trach iMovie Pref file
• Repair Permissions
• Free space on Start-up hard disk - I never go under 25Gb
You can also try to open iPhoto - If this doesn't connect with a library - I think that iMovie too hangs-up.
Anything of above that You need step to step guidance for ?
Yours Bengt W

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