IMovie projects wont play...

Hello,
In my iMoive all of videos in my events work and play in the playback section, however when i create a project and drag video from an event to the project and then try to play it back it is just a grey screne. Also the same thing happens if i try to playback something i have editited previously. I took it to the apple store today and he went to Library, Prefercences, and draged the ones with iMovie on it to the trash. He said that this would restart my prefercences and fix the problem. We went back to iMovie to check it and it would work perfectly. Everything worked, i could start new editing projects they would play back, i could play old edited projects and they would play back. Now im back home and just tried to do it and it stopped working again. i tried doing the library, preference thing again and then it would start working for a minute and then stop working litteraly within a minute.
Someone please help me!!!
Thanks Fred

Hi
Use iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4)
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4) : http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
and update QuickTime too
Yours Bengt W

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