IMovie won't export a 3 picture movie (no video)

Having problems with my mac recently (actually my wife's mac). For years she has been doing movies with iMovie and iDVD and loves it overall. However, on her recently new (month old), she has a Macbook Pro, 16 gig ram, 2 gig video ram 750gig flash SSD drive storage, OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 latest patches, etc. She for some reason can NOT do an export of a movie. It is complaining about not enough memory.
So, from other posts, I did the sodu purge as admin user and cleared the memory file cache that was 6 gig... brought it back down to about 500k -- more reasonable. I then started iMovie to publish and it still failed. As soon as iMovie started, the file cache kicked back up to 3 gig which does not make sense. So I exited iMovie, re-purged and restarted iMovie.
I then created a new project. Put 3 single pictures in it -- no video at all. Then did publish and it nagged again about not enough memory. I even had the export down to mobile device output for smallest possible (vs HD1080 format).
It is like it has something permanently stuck in its craw and won't let go.
Now, another few things... I have done a full logout AND full shutdown SEVERAL TIMES and it still won't allow a published export.
Please help !!

iMovie is part of iLife. It should be on the #2 gray instalation disk that came with your MacBook
While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use iMovie. There's an iMovie Support Community where everybody uses iMovie. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer. https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

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