IMovie won't let me drag photos into the project???

iMovie has never done this to me before. I have made several projects in the past year with no troubles. Now (after having to put a new HD in my iMac and reinstall my software) I have opened iMovie to make a new project and it's giving me trouble.
Basically, I can create a new project. I can create a Title card at the beginning of the project, I can even drag in one or two photos from iphoto, but no more than that. When I select 40 photos from an iphoto album and drag them to the stage, it says "importing photos", but the progress bar does not go any further than 10%, and I always have to force quit the program.
Help?!

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