IMovie hung up on previous project

I may have loaded some clips into iMovie I maybe shouldn't have...I say this because it took a long time for iMovie to actually display them and it's not happy about it..very sluggish..prbly not the best clips for iMovie.
Anyway, now, when I open iMovie, I think it's trying to re-open that project with those gnarly clips and I don't know the best way to clear the decks..make iMovie forget about that project.
What IS the way? Trash iMovie's prefs?
thank you,
ray

Richard,
"Note: if you burn your project to a double-layer disk, you should burn directly from iDVD rather than from a disk image. A disc-burning utility will not set the layer break according to DVD specification and may cause playback issues."
True, this is what is clearly stated by apple in the iDVD6 Help Menu. However, in practice a few users (including Len Goff & myself) have found the opposite.....namely, it's ok to make a disc image first on your desktop and then use Toast to burn the image to Verbatim / Maxell DVD-R at 4x or slower ..... works fine.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4166319&#4166319
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4508870&#4508870

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