Importing from iMovie HD is not bringing any of my edits!

According to the iMovie 09 help file:
"When you import video from iMovie HD projects:
- All clips from the clip viewer are added to a new Event.
- All clips from the timeline are added to a new project."
But when I import, ALL my work is lost. I get one long event that is the original source and NOTHING else. No new project s created, even though there is stuff in the timeline. (Stuff that took hours to create.) Is the help file lying? Did I really just loose hours of work?

I have exactly the same problem >:-(
The only solution I can think of is exporting each clip, one by one, to full quality QuickTime files, then importing those into iMovie 09. I'm doing that now (roughly 100 clips. Grrrr...)

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Then click any where on the timeline you are having trouble with and type Command + 0 (Zero) to see the sequence settings. Either report those settings or take a screen shot of the Sequence Settings window and post that.
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Also, you can click on the source clip in the FCP Bin, then control-click on the clip and select Reveal in Finder from the drop down menu. Once that file is revealed, open it in Quicktime 7 and see if if plays correctly there.
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Hi,
I am importing iMovie HD projects into iMovie 09.
The clips in iMovie HD (originally imported from DV) have the correct capture date/time on them.
However, when I import these clips into iMovie 09, it does not preserve these dates for the events but instead chooses to use the "file create date/time" as the event date time.
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Hi,
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However, when I import these clips into iMovie 09, it does not preserve these dates for the events but instead chooses to use the "file create date/time" as the event date time.
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