IMovie wants to save iMovie Events at root level of local harddisk

I work on a network user. When I want to import movies from my camera iMovie wants to save the clips at /iMovie Events.localized. How can I change the destination folder.
When I start iMovie only the iMovie Projects folder is created. The iMovie Events folder is not created. I tried to delete the preferences for iMovie7 in ~/Library/Preferences but no success. iMovie still wants to store all clips at root directory. When I create the iMovie Events folder at root level and grant access to it, the import works.
Any suggestions how to get rid of that?
Thanx in advance
Gerhard

If you're copying a movie file directly from a camcorder to place it on your hard disc (..as distinct from "importing" from the camera into iMovie..) then iMovie may recognise the locally-stored file as a camcorder's material only if it's in the root directory.
HOWEVER, you can tell iMovie to put its imported iMovie Events folder wherever you want: I keep mine on a separate internal hard disc (..we-ell, a couple of fast hard discs combined as a 'RAID'..) on my G5 PowerMac.
The iMovie program itself is in 'Applications' on the startup hard disc, the iPhoto Library (..for importing stills..) is on a second internal hard disc, and the iMovie Events folder is on the RAID disc.
That way, the Mac can import video without affecting the main hard disc, and any 'housekeeping' or indexing which the system wants to do on that disc.
Normally, iMovie will put your iMovie Events folder in the 'Movies' folder of your own User identity. How did I get mine on my RAID drive..? It's so long ago that I don't remember.. But I think that I just dragged it there from its original place, and when iMovie later said that it couldn't find it, it also asked where to look, and I just pointed it to the RAID drive. Runs OK for me.

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