IMovie won't let me edit a project after update to 9.0.9

I am working on editing a concert in iMovie '11 and recently updated iMovie to version 9.0.9. After the update installed, I tried to copy and paste a shot video clip from one project to another one, but nothing happened (by the way, this process worked fine before the update). I went back to the project screen and a screen popped up that looks like this:
The progress bar did not move at all, it just stayed in the same place. I tried to quit iMovie (command-Q) but that didn't work, so I force-quit it. I then opened it again and the footage that I was trying to copy was in the project. I decided I didn't want that clip, so I deleted it. Guess what I got:
I relaunched iMovie again, and the clip had deleted.
Anyone know what is wrong?
I am running iMovie on a 2008 iMac (Core 2 Duo processor, 250GB HDD, 4GB RAM) running Mountain Lion (10.8.3).

I just got off the phone with Apple. They said it was a software-update related problem. I restarted the computer and everything is working.

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