IMovie lost link to iPhoto movies,

I'm using iMovie 08, and iPhoto 08, and have successfully imported many movies from iPhoto to iMovie. I have used those "iPhoto movies" in projects.
For some reason I now get a little triangle with a yellow exclaimation point "!" in over the movie clips in the +project window+, and can't export the projects. The movies are still in iPhoto in the same folders that they were always in, they are still viewable in the iPhoto movies folders within iMovie, but they have lost their link to the video clips in the projects.
Also, when I use a clip in the project a little broken up orange line appears in the clip in the iPhoto movies window to indicate which portion of the clip is used. Those orange lines are now gone.
But the project looks fine, except for the warning triangles. I can even drag across and view the clips in the project window (the clips with the warning triangles), so there is some information still there. But I can, for example, export a large version of the project to be used in iDVD.
Any ideas how to restore this link?

First, try rebuilding the iPhoto database. And try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1192
They're not referencing properly. The original AVI files are not being located in the iPhoto database, but the project MOV files are fine because they are native to iMovie.

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