IMovie crashes when event deleted or renamed. Events were moved to Disk C.

I have a problem that has stumped me, the phone Mac Genius, and my local store Genius. iMovie '09 worked well for me but System drive A was getting too full. I moved both the iMovie Project and Event Folders to a separate internal hard drive. I did not do it within the iMovie program itself. I simply copied the folders and deleted the originals. Somewhere in there I upgraded to Snow Leopard but that may be unrelated. Things seemed to work fine until I tried to rename an Event, delete an event, or discard rejected clips. If I do those things, iMovie crashes without making the changes. It deposits some files in the trash in the effort. I can rename or delete a project OK. I can still import, edit, and share movies seemingly normally.
I notice that when I create a DVD in iDVD, that all my iMovies appear twice in the Media Browser, one full set after the other.
I tried all the usual things. Deleted all the preference files that I could find. Reinstalled iMovie. Reinstalled Snow Leopard. Even did an erase and clean reinstall of Snow Leopard and iLife '09 on my drive A. Switched drives B and C. Problem persists.
If I import a small clip from my Flip Camera to Drive A, I cannot change name or delete. If I remove Drive C with all my video (500 GB+) from its bay, then I can change name and delete the events on Drive A.
Seems to me there is some registry information within the event or project files that I scrambled when I moved them to another internal hard drive. Was there some other way I should have tried? What happened and how can I recover?

Same problem for me too. If you look at the top section of your crash report you see reference to 3ivx, this is some kind of video codec. I did a search on my mac for 3ivx and uninstalled it. This fixed the problem. See these two articles for more information:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/150648/imovie-crashed-after-osx-update-from-6-1 2-2012
http://linvsmac.blogspot.com/2012/07/imovie-906-upgrade-conflicts-with-3ivx.html
Hope this helps.

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