IMovie won't let me insert Title (rainball of death appears)

When i try to create a Title as soon as I try to choose a font etc. my G5 freezes and iMovieHD will not respond and the Rainbow ball of death appears forever and I have to force quit the application.
Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Memory: 2 GB DDR SDRAM

Try deleting the imovie preference file. Close Imovie. Then locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. That should do it. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
Sue

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