IMovie starts but wont show the main window

I have been trying to figure out why iMovie will not start correctly. The system log is not very useful as it doesn't give me the name of the file archive that is incomprehensible:
8/14/09 11:03:53 AM iMovie[1332] * -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x62, 0x70, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x73, 0x74, 0x30, 0x30)
iMovie doesn't terminate, it just fails to show the main window and there is no way from the menu/keyboard to show it. It still quits normally using COMMAND+Q/menu. I've removed iMovie preferences, removed iMovie and reinstalled, and even moved the projects folder. Still nada.
To dispel the common things; I have 4GB of memory and that disk has about 200GB left on the main drive.
Any help?

Just in case, I found the solution - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10112664#10112664

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