IMovie 8 startup is very slow

I have imovie on a 2.8 Ghz imac with 2GB of RAM and it take 5 minutes to load. Any suggestion on speeding up start up time or is this a fact of life until Apple makes performance improvements?

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I have an MBP which takes but a few seconds to start up im08, I use it for experimentation and tend to work on my MP which also starts up in a similar time. Whilst I don't have much content on my MBP I do on my MP so I have to assume your start up time indicates a problem. Do you have a large iphoto library by any chance.

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