IMovie "loses" footage in events

For the past couple of weeks. iMovie has been acting up. I use iMovie in a business setting, basically filming short little interviews. In the course a filming, say I do 5 takes. By the time I reach the 5th take, Take 1 and 2 are nolonger in iMovie. They just completely disappear. I record everything directly into iMovie via HD Camcorder and a Firewire.
They aren't deleted though, however as they are still in the events folder but for whatever reason iMovie can't display them anymore. If I try to drag the clip back into iMovie it tells me it doesn't support the format (.dv).
This is really annoying. The only work-around I have so far is to use iMovie HD, since I am able to drag the iMovie '08 event (from the folder) into iMovie HD and edit it.
I've tried everything, reinstalling iMovie, trying from a different user account, creating a new event for each import (instead of importing everything to a single event), calling Apple, etc.
I've noticed that a telltale sign that footage is about to disappear is when the thumbnails become gray and the sound goes out. I usually have to restart iMovie after this, but upon restart the footage will be gone.

I have this problem as well.
Will switching to iMovie 06 solve things?
I'm seeing a lot of unresolved forums on this support that relate to erratic behavior in iMovie, like this one. Doesn't anyone from Apple have solutions?
I've got a mess now in iMovie '08, with lost footage in events (what I call disappearing clips), the wrong clip thumbprint showing up in the project area, duplicated thumbprints. Audio is not synched properly in some of the clips in the event area as well, and yet these clips have perfect audio when played in QuickTime.
Bueller? Anyone?

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