IMovie - All Projects Gone?

I have just opened my Imovie and all my projects are gone. This has never happened before. I was using it earlier, quit it like I normally do, then got it up again and everything is gone.
A really important project I was working on is gone too... I don't know why?
Help!
(I have done the User->Account->Library->Preferences>com.apple.Imovie thing and movied it out of preferences but this didn't work!)

I've been on the phone to apple three times today, for a total of about six hours. We've restarted, booted in safe mode, run disk repairs/ verify disk twice, deleted and reinstalled iMovie - all to no avail. One of the higher members of the tech team has emailed me Captuer Data but can't contact me till Tuesday. With Capture Data I created one file without, and one file whilst running iMovie.
I'm absolutely clueless about what has happened.

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A. How to Copy Event's and Project's to external hard disks
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IF Audio and Photos are not copies over to the external hard disk - and in Your movie introduced from this new storage - the new Mac can not find and connect to this material. It just don't work.
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