Imovie window disappeared? HELP!!

I was working on a slideshow with pix and video in imovie and i was dragging some pictures to the slideshow and all of the sudden that whole window disappeared. Now when I open imovie, the bar at the top shows up but theres no window...??! Also, is there any auto recovery, as I hadnt yet saved the slideshow but had several hours of work put into it...

OK that did it!
Let me explain more.
I have a MacBook hooked up to an external Apple Cinema Display. I use a trick to turn off the macbook screen, so that only the Cinema Display is on:
1) Close Lid on MacBook Pro to put it to sleep.
2) Unplug power from MacBook, then plug it back in and bang on keyboard.
This wakes up the Mac and the external display, while leaving the built-in screen off. (if you do this trick, Step 3 is to crack open the MacBook to let heat out - you can open it all the way and the built in display still won't come on).
ANYWAY... putting all the above aside, the bottom line is that when I first edited the iMovie project, only the external display was on. For some reason, trying to open iMovie with both displays on causes this problem where the iMovie window does not show up, even though the menu bar across the top does.
I am amazed that this worked.. but it did. Maybe you were doing something similar?

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