IMovie give a half-hearted bounce, then nothing. Before I re-install...

I couldn't sleep last night, decided to tinker around and do a little video editing but I had a blonde moment and attempted to import a video with a / in the title and naturally got the "error -37" message.
D'oh!!
When I attempted to relaunch iMovie, the icon bounced once then nothing. I went inside my Home folder, opened the Library, opened Preferences, and deleted: com.apple.imovie3.plist
No dice.
Is my only option left to re-install iMovie? Am I missing something? Did I accidentally kill iMovie? (I know, killing an App. sounds ludicrous and one reason I love macs so much b/c they're so forgiving, but still...)
Before I attempt to unearth my restore/iLife discs, I wanted to check with the wise, all-knowing Mac Pooh-bahs here.
Thanks so much, in advance!
900 mhz iBook, WOOT!   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

I think first thing to do is some basic system maintenance. Start with this page and try the stuff there and see if that gets you anywhere...
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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