Importing Quicktime with Flash codec

I wanted to put a Flash cartoon I made into my iMovie, so I published into Quicktime. It worked fine when I opened it in Quicktime but when I try to import it into iMovie the import progress bar flashes briefly then dissapears then after that nothing changes in my movie or in my clips bar. It seems to think changes have been made as it asks me to save before I quit.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Sorry - I should have explained more of the details. I have video tapes from several sources - my own, friends, relatives etc. in both VHS and 8mm analog. It was a BIG job to capture all the different sources and chronologically align all the various clips I wanted from all the various sources. This is my first FCE use, and I'm sure I probably did a dumb thing here. I have a single sequence that is about 3.5 hours long. It's probably too long, but I certainly know I don't need the all the duplicate footage that I haven't used so I'd like to get rid of it and use the over 100GB disk space for further captures. So I intended to export my 3.5 hour sequence with markers and after a successful re-import then delete all the original footage. When I select export from the menu, it specifically says I can save ALL markers with the QT movie. Then when I later do the import I get NO markers at all. Now I don't know what to do! So here are a couple questions (if you don't mind).
1. What is the approx max movie time I can get on a single layer dvd using iDVD - I'd like to know how best to split up my 3.5 hour sequence.
2. If I select some of my 3.5 hour video and paste it into a new FCE project then none of the markers are pasted and it looks like I have to make them all over again. How can I copy the markers along with the movie?
3. On a related issue, if I select a portion of the movie in the timeline and delete a slice via in/out points, the movie gap automatically closes BUT the markers do not. The markers do not seem to be coupled to the movie at all and that simply makes no sense to me.
Sorry for being so inexperienced here, but I would truly appreciate any assistance.
Mick.

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